Posted by Grant Foraker on April 21, 2011 at 06:36:57:
In Reply to: Getting personal with Comet posted by Keith Smith on April 20, 2011 at 22:55:19:
Two ways to do checks.
1) Start with blank check form and have Comet print everything. Caveat. Some banks require MICR (magnetic ink) toner for their check reading machines. This may also mean a /special/dedicated printer. Other banks can do it with plain toner and use OCR to scan checks. I did a project like this for Home Ownwers Association Management company. 250 associations went from 250 boxes of checks that had to be swapped out evety 10-15 checks to one check form with everything printed.
2) Preprinted checks that get shoved into any old printer and the Amount and Payee get printed. Just like continuous forms.
In both cases you need to be careful about print positioning as different printers have different Top and Left margins. Mostly I ignore the right margin and just make sure I don't print past the bottom.
I like the check in the middle forms. Top stun and check are the same 42 lines as the old continuous stock checks. The bottom stub gets used by the customer.
I've only done preprinted signatures on example #1. The owner of the HOA company was always a signee. The Treasure of the HOA or other officer was always the second signee. Sometimes there was a third and I had to draw an extra signature line.
Yes, there is a tradeoff between computer signed checks compared to hand signed checks.
Ask the bank about "check validation" or whatever they may call it. After every check run, Comet creates a file of the checks printed that is sent to the bank. They use the file to protect against fraud.
Each file can be a maximum of 1MB in length Uploaded files will be purged from the server on a regular basis.