Source Technologies, LLC ST9612 Secure MICR Printer User’s Guide
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Source Technologies’ secure MICR printers are designed to allow both general office
document printing and secure MICR document printing. You may print a variety of
conventional jobs with MICR toner using all of the printer features available. These
printers come standard with PCL5e, PCL6, and PostScript Level 2 emulation. Source
Technologies has designed features to enhance the base printer for MICR specific
printing that allows you to securely print high quality negotiable documents.
Secure MICR
Source Technologies’ secure MICR printers have resident fonts for printing MICR
documents, password secured in Flash memory. Specific PJL commands are required to
unlock and relock these font resources. While unlocked, they can be accessed with
standard PCL5e commands. Please refer to Chapter 7 for more information. In addition
to the secured font resources, the printer has been internally modified to ensure high
quality printing with MICR toner. Specific print densities, transfer voltages and fusing
temperatures are factory pre-set. Source Technologies’ secure MICR printers only
support Source Technologies MICR toner cartridges.
MICR Fonts
The E-13B MICR font, designed specifically for the printer, is resident in your printer.
Examples of the font characters are in Appendix A of this manual. The font can only be
activated after the appropriate PJL commands with the correct password have been sent
to the printer. The alternative MICR Font used in some countries, CMC7, is also resident
in your printer.
Secure Fonts
Two Source Technologies’ designed numeric secure fonts, Secure Numeric and ICR
Secure Numeric, are resident and password protected in Flash memory in your printer.
Examples of these fonts can be found in Appendix B of this manual. Like the MICR font,
these fonts can only be accessed after sending PJL commands with the correct
password from your application software.
The ICR Secure Numeric Font is designed for use in the Convenience Amount area of a
check. This area contains the numeric dollar value and is located on the right side of the
check approximately 2 inches up from the bottom edge. The imaging recognition
features available in today’s check reader/sorter equipment can optically read it. The
Secure Numeric Font should not be used in this area of the check. It is a reverse image
font and cannot be read automatically by the equipment.
It is recommended that both fonts are used as they are designed to deter check fraud.
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