[X4U] Magnetic ink

[Jeff Carruthers]

Art: here in Canada, we order preprinted cheques through our bank that 
have the routing information already imprinted. The cheques can then be 
printed through regular accounting software, such as Quicken, either 
using a laserwriter or an injet.

The only think to be careful of with ink jets is that the printing can 
be washed away if the cheque gets wet (not a worry with laser 
printers).

Like other posters, I believe that banks no longer rely on special 
magnetic inks to read the cheques.

Jeff Carruthers

On Jan 9, 2005, at 9:11 PM, aamolsch at shentel.net wrote:

> We would like to use our inkjet printers to write checks,
> but we have been unable to find ink that will print the
> routing numbers that bank processing machines can read --
> you know, the stuff along the bottom of the checks specific
> to each check. Apparently, the ink used has to be specially
> formulated
> and contain some kind of magnetic content. Has anyone here
> discovered a source for this? Or for laser printers?
> Art
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