RE: MICR Check Printing

Dear Doug,

Hopefully this information conforms to midrange-l guidelines about information 
from vendors. We manufacture a twinax printer interface that converts IPDS to 
the HP PCL language. We have learned from providing customer support on this 
product about one special item that is required to properly print MICR 
applications to IPDS capable printers.

One of the excellent features of IBM's IPDS concept is that it allows the 
printer to describe for the AS/400 all of the features that it currently 
supports. Support for MICR printing is a specific answer that needs to be sent 
from the print device back to the AS/400. By default the answer is assumed to 
be a negative (no MICR support) for an AFP capable printer. If you are planning 
on testing multiple types of IPDS capable printers; you will find that your 
application could be held in the output queue, or if using the AS/400 MICR host 
based fonts that the fonts will not be downloaded, when the test printer 
reports to the AS/400 no support for MICR printing.

I hope this information may be useful to you during your testing.

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019

Doug Barnes wrote about MICR printing:


Has anyone on this list set this up for themselves in house?

We're evaluating two vendors in addition to doing it ourselves.
I can create an overlay form for the checks. I have a supplier for 
the MICR enabled printer which includes the font(s) and is an 
AFP printer and I have a supplier for the check stock.

What, if anything am I missing?

- Doug Barnes -






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