On Monday 25 December 2006 12:03, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >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/ Neat, but that does leave things exclusively for printers for which there is magnetic toner available for. I'm not aware of any ink squirters that have such a formulation available. So this may be a laser printer only method. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
