Re: Cheque printing direct from the iSeries.

GDS wrote:

Virtually any HP laser printer can be used to print checks. All you have to
do is change the toner from standard to a magnetic or MICR toner cartridge.
I have used HP printers extensively for check printing at many clients with
no issues. The requirement for "special" printers is software dependent.

Many of the software solutions have a micr font available with the software.
You should be able to control signature application based on various
conditional criteria... 

Gregory A. Garner
Garner Data Systems, Inc.
4270 Grand Teton Parkway
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone: 770 845 9636  Fax:770 614 3496

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On Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Cheque printing direct from the iSeries.

There are turnkey solutions out there from vendors like Acom that produce the entire check on blank check stock. They use a special laser printers that support MICR (magnetic ink character recognition?) printing. Many stock printers can be converted to print MICR. Typically the checks are printed on stock that includes a self mailer. These require a separate device to fold and seal the envelope. You've seen these checks with the perforated edges that have to be torn off to open it.

The other alternative is to roll your own and print to pre-printed and numbered checks. Typically these are continuous form checks that are printed on an impact dot-matrix or band printer. The check forms can be purchased in several configurations, i.e., carbon copies, These checks can be burst by hand or by machine and processed by normal mailroom folder/inserter machines. There is RPG shareware available to produce the spelled-out amount on the check face.

Typically the MICR checks are used for high-volume processing and the impact printers for more moderate operations.

But the best way to handle payment processing is to use EFT. Your bank can easily set you up to upload your data and they will do the funds transfer for you, usually for far less than what it would cost to produce paper checks. Our check printing project was shelved permanently once we started looking into EFT.

Hope this helps as a starting point.

Wayne



Eduard Sluis wrote:

Dear all,

For one of our customers we are to print cheques direct on a cheque

printer.

This Cheque printing requires a bit more than normal printing because we

want to be damn sure that the cheque is printed and is printed only once and
....?!

I have to assume that we are not the first ones to do so and that perhaps

this is a very common thing to do.

What we would like to know is:
- Are tools available to do this?
- What kind of printers are suitable?
- Are there routines available to use with specific printers?
- Anything to think about we might overlook?
- Any experience that could help us!!

Any help/response appreciated.

Kind regards,
Eduard Sluis.