FMS Cheque Printer

[ade5757]

Hi I need to replace the Cheque printer. is there a preference as to which laserjet printer to use or are any fine as long as we have the correct drivers?

[Edu-IT]

I think you can use any printer, we certainly did back in the day when we printed cheques. Are you using the A4 sheets?

[MatthewL]

Last cheque printer I was involved in was a HP LaserJet M605 about 3 years ago they used a MICR toner which is some form of magnetic ink used for cheques.

[jmak]

Our cheques are on A4 sheets. Our last printers (Kyocera) and current (Ricoh) print cheques from FMS into the stationery provided by Barclays.

I have done nothing to make this work - it's almost Apple-like [emoji57]

[FN-GM]

You're best of using ink jet printers for cheques. I know one school that had a cheque stolen in the post, someone had managed to lift the laser toner off the paper and re-print it and steal money from the account. Ink soaks into the paper to prevent it.

[MatthewL]

@FN-GM the magnetic toner cannot be lifted off the page hence its use.

[ade5757]

Thanks for all of your replies. very Helpful Ill swap out our brother printer for an inkjet with the magnetic ink

[howartp]

We had to use one on some official cheque-printing list; no idea whose list it was / from where.

 

We stopped printing cheques a few years ago though so don't touch it now.

[FishCustard]

You can get MICR toners for various printers. In a previous school we used an HP 1022 (small, reliable, cheap to run).