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From: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
Message-ID: <1384@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 01:26:54 GMT
References: <12810@jade.BBN.COM> <555@lzaz.ATT.COM> <4354@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn)
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In article <4354@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
>The question also raises serious security problems.  You don't want just
>anyone able to print your checks at will.  I once worked for a division of
>L.A.  County that sent out welfare checks.  They used pre-printed checks
>that had the amounts printed by computer and were signed by a special
>machine.  Once someone got into the vault where they stored the blank
>checks, stole a pile of them out of the bottom of a box and printed
>themselves several hundred thousand dollars worth.  The out of sequence
>numbers eventually tripped them up.
>
>Imagine if they'd been able to print signed, valid checks on blank paper
>with any numbers they wanted _on their own machine at home_.  If I were in
>charge of such things, I'd definitely make laser-printed checks invalid,
>if not illegal.

(What I am about to say is not authoritative, and certainly has not been
researched, but is based strictly on what I have heard to be true)

I am under the impression that checks (hereinafter referred to as 'cheques')
can be printed on anything, in any size, and the banks must honour it.  This
is what makes it possible for those huge marketing gimmick cheques, made out
for charity by big organisations on 2 x 5 foot cardboard.

Thus you can write cheques on toilet paper, aluminum foil, or the back of
your lunch banana peel!

That's just what I heard :-)  (laser printer cheques seem kinda lame next to
this :-))

Brian.
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