Gene Heskett wrote: > > I think you are wasting your time unless you just want to fill in the > blanks of a ready-made, purchased from the bank, check. > > The reason? They are custom imprinted with a magnetic pattern that > contains the information to route and clear that check, with only the > amount being required to be read and entered by hand at the clearing > point. > > We don't have the facilities to do that for an otherwise identical looking > check, and if we did, I imagine the secret service would come to pay a > visit, probably without knocking other than the door in to gain entrance. > They tend to take a very dim view of counterfeiting, which could easily be > done with essentially the same printing equipment. > http://www.sandeen.net/freecheck/
