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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
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Date: 4 May 89 09:09:31 GMT
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hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) wrote:
  
> [laser printing cheques] also raises serious security problems.  You don't
> want just anyone able to print your checks at will.  If I were in charge of
> such things, I'd definitely make laser-printed checks invalid, if not
> illegal.

I don't know about US law, but in Britain you can write a cheque on anything,
so you couldn't prohibit this.  There has even been a case of a cheque being
written on the side of a cow and honoured by the bank.

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