MicroPrint
Your Secure MICR Printer also contains the MicroPrint font. MicroPrint is text less than
.010” tall. It can easily be read with a magnifying glass but appears to be a solid line to an unaided
eye. This font provides protection against reproduction by most scanners and copiers because they cannot successfully print the tiny letters.
Most check printers use this font in the signature area of their preprinted checks. We recommend using this font to help deter check fraud. The text in this font can either be fixed, such as the name of your organization, or it can be variable, such as the check amount and payee name. The use of variable text provides an additional method of protection against check counterfeiters.
Use of the “MP” designate symbol to identify the line as MicroPrint is optional. The MicroPrint font only contains alphanumeric characters. Punctuation marks and spaces are ignored by this font and do not print.
Bi-Directional Feedback
Your Secure MICR Printer can provide MICR status messages to the check printing application. This feature is valuable in a networked environment with multiple printers or with users utilizing a printer located in another area. The application can get information on MICR settings such as toner cartridge type (MICR or regular), locked trays (which trays are locked to
When the printer receives the “@PJL INFO STVARIABLES” command it will report all MICR variables to the host. The MICR variables can also be seen by accessing the printer’s front panel menu. Select Reports > Menu Settings Page. The second page of this menu shows the current MICR variable configuration.
If USTATUS DEVICE=On, the printer will report PJL error 40020 for any MICR error which causes the printer to go
@PJL USTATUS DEVICE CODE=40020
DISPLAY=”MICR Password Error Press Go”
ONLINE=FALSE
The code will always be 40020, only the display line will change to indicate the specific error.
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