check writing = versa

[Qwest]

Hay Groupies....

For eons now I have been looking for software which will pre print checks .
.. . like Versa

By pre print checks, I mean it will print account numbers, payee,
transmittal numbers....etc on paper so that one can acutally prepare
[complete a check (negotiable instrument)

I have software (quicken) to complete checks on pre-printed checks....

What is exasperating is that I found a freebie a few months ago...I
downloaded it, but can't find it on my massive hard disks.......I never
installed it, so I am only assuming it does what I want.

Anyway....thanks for any help.

Norm Cohen

if anybody has it and would donwload it that would be even better....

(e-mail address removed) (delete no spam)

 

[Roanoke]

don't forget your magnetic ink for the runner numbers along the bottom

 

[Qwest]

I am oblivious to the implications of your reminder. would have forgotten
but for your message.

I was assuming any substantial program would allow me to print checks which
would pass muster in all respects. If I remember high school business law
[entirely aside from "comm trans" in law school] .a check (draft) is lawful
if it bears certain minimal components. I also had assumed that a check
which bears the bank's transit number, the account number and check number
would suffice at the clearinghouse ....

I found a checkwriting program called check printing software 2000 on search
freeware team. As it happens it is the same program (and only program) I
found earlier.

do I need a "heads up" of some kind????

 

[Roanoke]

You will probably want to check with your bank, but in the area of the
states where I was living several years ago, many banks required the running
numbers to be in the particular font you see on preprinted checks. Also,
the ink is a magnetic type ink which is picked up by their readers. Using
an ink which was not of the magnetic type or using a tape head demagnetizer
to demagnetize the ink on the preprinted checks forced the checks to be
hand-cancelled at the bank. Many banks will charge you a juicy fee for
having to hand-cancel.

I am oblivious to the implications of your reminder. would have forgotten
but for your message.

I was assuming any substantial program would allow me to print checks
which
would pass muster in all respects. If I remember high school business law
[entirely aside from "comm trans" in law school] .a check (draft) is
lawful
if it bears certain minimal components. I also had assumed that a check
which bears the bank's transit number, the account number and check number
would suffice at the clearinghouse ....

I found a checkwriting program called check printing software 2000 on
search
freeware team. As it happens it is the same program (and only program) I
found earlier.

do I need a "heads up" of some kind????

don't forget your magnetic ink for the runner numbers along the bottom

 

[Terry]

You will probably want to check with your bank, but in the area of the
states where I was living several years ago, many banks required the running
numbers to be in the particular font you see on preprinted checks. Also,
the ink is a magnetic type ink which is picked up by their readers. Using
an ink which was not of the magnetic type or using a tape head demagnetizer
to demagnetize the ink on the preprinted checks forced the checks to be
hand-cancelled at the bank. Many banks will charge you a juicy fee for
having to hand-cancel.

Theoretically this is true. However, I believe that most check
processing now uses optical recognition, and does not depend on the
magnetic ink any more. I don't think asking at your bank is likely to
be useful, the people you deal with there won't know the answer. And
it's not *your* bank that matters, those characters are read by the
check processor for the bank where the check is cashed or deposited.
Most check processing is done centrally, at the processing site for a
large bank, or by one of a few large check processing firms that serve
smaller banks.

I think technically you have to use MICR ink. You can purchase MICR
toner cartridges. But I have seen posts by people who say they use
regualar laser printing without problems. It probably depends on where
your check is cashed. Sorry, I have no direct experience to help here.

You do have to print the numbers in that MICR font, but that's part of
the software you are looking for.

A quick google search for "check printing software freeware" turned up
http://www.checkprintingsoftware.com/, which looks like it will do
what you need.

HTH,

Terry

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

You will probably want to check with your bank, but in the area of the
states where I was living several years ago, many banks required the running
numbers to be in the particular font you see on preprinted checks. Also,
the ink is a magnetic type ink which is picked up by their readers. Using
an ink which was not of the magnetic type or using a tape head demagnetizer
to demagnetize the ink on the preprinted checks forced the checks to be
hand-cancelled at the bank. Many banks will charge you a juicy fee for
having to hand-cancel.

The font is just "easy" for the scanners to read, it doesn't have to be
magnetic - that's just even "easier" to read.

All that happens if the numbers don't scan is that the cheque is
rejected by the scanner and has to be viewed by a human being.

It would be strange to charge for doing this, as a rejection can have
many causes, not just "insufficient magnetism."

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[Christopher Jahn]

You will probably want to check with your bank, but in the
area of the states where I was living several years ago,
many banks required the running numbers to be in the
particular font you see on preprinted checks. Also, the
ink is a magnetic type ink which is picked up by their
readers. Using an ink which was not of the magnetic type
or using a tape head demagnetizer to demagnetize the ink on
the preprinted checks forced the checks to be
hand-cancelled at the bank. Many banks will charge you a
juicy fee for having to hand-cancel.

Wow, have you been had. All bank checks in the US are
processed optically About 20 years ago there was
experimentation with magnetics, but then optical scanners
became the standard with the advent of the UPC. It brought
the price of optical scanners waaay down.



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