Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:4529 misc.legal:16097 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,misc.legal Subject: Re: OCR font, check printing Message-ID: <34896@news.Think.COM> Date: 22 Mar 90 08:44:24 GMT References: <1990Mar19.000741.13602@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: barmar@nugodot.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 20 In article kaldis@airplane.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) writes: > Theoretically, you can >write a check on a napkin, and the bank is legally obligated to honor >it. A friend of mine once deposited a check written on a blackboard. I think I've also heard stories about people printing checks on their bodies. > (Once I had to >deposit a check that was a photocopy, and the bank whined about it, >but they ultimately honored it -- and it was good.) I presume the signature was original, not copied. Otherwise, what would prevent me from photocopying a check multiple times in order to steal money from the payer? -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar