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From: eager@ringworld.Sun.COM (Mike Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Laser Printable Checks?
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Date: 9 May 89 01:17:16 GMT
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In article <1384@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
>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.
>

This is generally true.  But the kicker is that the check is only redeemable on the
bank on which it is drawn.  Anything which goes through the Federal Reserve clearing
house has to be MICR encoded and must meet certain size criteria.  Don't try to 
pay taxes with a check maid out on the back of a jelly jar label -- it'll just jam
the machinery!

-- Mike Eager