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From: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Computer Checque Coding Fonts (MICR?)
Keywords: cheques fonts micr printers
Message-ID: <27295@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 89 15:45:50 GMT
References: <624@sce.carleton.ca>
Reply-To: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <624@sce.carleton.ca> roth@sce.carleton.ca (Carl Roth) writes:
>I would like to be able to print checques on either a dotmatrix or laser
>printer but I need to be able to also print the computer readable checque
>code as well. Does anyone have any information regarding the specifications
>of the fonts currently used or of any software available. The term MICR crops
>up now and again, does anyone have any information on this. 

MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Code Recognition.  Unless you feed some
exotic magnetic toner to your laser printer, I don't think you'll have
much success.

>Carl Roth
>Carleton University
>Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>roth@sce.carleton.ca
>roth@sce.uucp
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