Re: micr code -- RPG400-L

Ray,
we did this about a year ago, and has been great for us. Helps operations
not to have to make sure they put the exact right set of checks on the
printer, just
load a blank check stock into the laser.
What you are going to run into is that you will have to buy special
magnetic toner for the check printer, because the MICR line needs to be
magnetic.
I am pretty sure that any printer can handle the toner cartridge, we use an
IBM Infoprint 40 to do the printing.
OK so here is the real answer you need to get a font from someone, we got
ours from the Toner Comapny .
Check out
http://www.rosettatechnologies.com/CheckSolutions/Solutions/Solutions.asp

Here is the MICR line in the AFP DDS document this is all you have to do
once you get the font and load it onto your system...
A            MICRFN        56A    19 11
A                                      FNTCHRSET(RSRLIB/C0MCR13B RSRLIB/T1-
A                                      MCR13B)

As for the special characters your bank will tell you which ones to use.
take a look at this site to give you an Idea of what they are
http://www.rosettatechnologies.com/LearningCenter/LearningCenter/DisplayClass.asp?pID=3

also here is what we use for our bank the 1's = transit 2's are account
number and the blanks between <    < are the chack number.
    <      < :111111111: <2222222222<
44444444444447FFFFFFFFF744FFFFFFFFFF44444444444444444444
0000C000000C0A111111111A0C2222222222C0000000000000000000

If you have any questions contact me by e-mail
scarter@rsrcorp.com



                    RDSHULTZ@NOOTER.C
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                    10/04/2001 09:27
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Here's the story.  I've been trying to find the answer to this question for
3 weeks.  I have contacted over 50 businesses, clubs, individuals and
organizations with no useable answer.  My company wanted to get away from
preprinted checks but we have a limited budget in our IS department.  So we
created our own bank check template in Microsoft Word and uploaded to the
AS/400.  We use RPG, The template we uploaded combined with our DDS prints
the Checks perfectly on our HP LaserJet 5si.  The only thing left is to
have
the MICR code print at the bottom of the check.

We were under the impression that we could just buy a MICR font, load it to
the AS/400 and use the font in our DDS.  NO one and I mean no one has been
able to tell me if there is such a thing as a MICR font that you can load
to
the AS/400 and then be able to use it in your DDS.  I thought it would be a
popular font, I guess I was wrong.  Can anyone tell me if such a font
exists.  If one does exist is there any special DDS coding you need to do
when using a MICR font?  Also noticed there are special characters
separating the check number and the bank account number in the MICR code,
any light on how these special characters are printed?

If there is no such font we can buy does anyone have an alternative
approach
we can take.  Don't want to buy a lot of software.  I mean we have the
entire check just the way we want it except for the MICR code.  Someone
said
we could get software for the HP printer to accommodate the font but what
do
I code in my DDS to let the printer know.



ANY HELP ON THIS SITUATION WILL PUT ME IN YOUR DEBT TILL THE END OF TIME.




Ray Shultz


Nooter Construction
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