Re: Controlling Printer Tray.

We looked at this type of application last April-May.   What at first seems to
be an "easy" application of laser printer technology turns out to be fraught
with perils and associated risks, some of them substantial, others just
opportunities to make dumb mistakes.  The most significant risks are fraud
related.  Among the "dumb" mistakes are things like an operator putting
pre-numbered check stock in the printer in the the wrong order, i.e.. placing
a higher numbered handful on top of a lower numbered handful and then filling
the drawer.  If that were to happen, every check is printed on the wrong
prenumbered (micr) check.

Other perils include such things as automatic reprinting of damaged forms by
modern laser printers.  For check printing you have to turn that feature off so
as to not wind up re-printing a spoiled check on the subsequent wrong check #.
You just want to "spoil" it and reprint later.

Fraud perils include someone stealing your preprinted check stock, using your
printer to print fraudulent checks, or someone altering a legitimate check to a
larger amount.

After considerable discussion, we decided to use a solution which allows us
to print our checks on "blank" check stock.  We print the check form, logos,
the MICR bank routing information, check number, etc. on blank check safety
paper.   The system is based on a standard Lexmark printer with a custom
MICR solution provided by  Source Technologies .  We were very impressed
with the system they proposed and are currently implementing the one shown
on the web page link above.  Unfortunately we are doing this on a PC lan as
part of a PeopleSoft implementation.  (I'd be a lot happier if it were on the
AS/400, but ...).  However I would think this would work equally well in an
AS/400 environment and I'm sure Source Technologies can provide details for
you.

I'm sorry about the length of the response but thought the background might be
useful to you as you proceed.  Let me know if you need contact information.

HTH

Ray

"Aleti, Anil" wrote:

Hi,

I guess this could be an easy question. I have a check printing program.
Depending on the bank I want to pickup different tray of the printer. I have
no Idea of how I can do that. What kind of parameters should I consider if
the printer could be hooked up to network or AS/400.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Anil.
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