I print the MICR line. Easy enough for that, the checks clear now without problem. My problem is portability so that checks print exactly the same from printer to printer without having to resetup the page. Insert paper on printer1 or 2 and print away.
The only difference between a regular printer and a check printer really is the magnetic ink used to print the MICR line. My focus for this post is printing checks (or forms, or cards, etc) using Word, PDF or other templates so that it can be easily printed from any machine/printer - like you can do with certain cards, forms and all. Except that each check info is different including bank info. So on one page you will have Check 1, 2 and 3 with each having their own info. And that I can easily send data to the template via a CF request. I could do this with CSS/DIVs by creating a setup for each customer/location I support but I would prefer something more universally accepted. Thanks... ~Terry -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:20 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Printing Checks Which banking system are the checks for? the US banking system? do they have MICR lines on them ? If i recall, the US banks charge quite a lot of money if they have to encode the MICR line after the checks ahve been supplied to the customer. Australian and NZ banks wont do it it all. they supply the cheques already MICR encoded. MICR has very precise alignment tolerances, aligned to the right and bottom of the page, not the top left. TO produce a cheque suitable for processing through automatied MICR machines or OCR machines requires a great deal of precision that is usually only provided by a specially modified printer - the issue is the paper moveing through the printer. You cant' have any page twisting or moving horizontally in teh printer. the right edge of the cheque has to be wihtin a hundredth of an inch of its required place or the MICR readers get errors and the customer gets charges. If you want to know more i can point you at where i used to buy such printers modified HP printers. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276205 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
