Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtndew!friedl
From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: OCR font, check printing
Summary: Magnetic toner
Message-ID: <374@mtndew.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 13:44:14 GMT
References: <1990Mar19.000741.13602@cs.utk.edu> <1990Mar19.014021.6410@DSI.COM>
Organization: Steve's Barnburner 386
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In article <1990Mar19.014021.6410@DSI.COM>, syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
> I wish those characters were only for optical scanners, but the
> font is call MICR or Magnetic Ink Character Recognition for a good
> reason, the ink can hold a slight charge and be read thatway at
> very high speed.  As for the font, Adobe sells it along with two
> others rather inexpensively.  The harder problem is getting the
> magnetic toner.

This is not true -- all toner is magetic.  Troy sells a modified
Ricoh laser printer and they use standard toner.  This is a very
happy accident of life.

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Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / Software Consultant / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy
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