Micr Fonts - Oce VarioPrint 6000 MICR series User Manual

MICR fonts

MICR fonts
Introduction
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition, or MICR, is a character recognition technology
used primarily by the banking industry to facilitate the processing of cheques. The tech-
nology allows computers to read information such as account numbers of printed docu-
ments. The magnetic reader requires specific MICR fonts. The major MICR fonts used
around the world are E-13B and CMC-7.
You can send both outline and bitmap MICR fonts from the host with the datastream
of the transaction print job. You can also install outline MICR fonts in the Settings Editor.
Note:
Do not alter the MICR fonts in any way. Altering the MICR fonts can cause read errors.
Support of MICR fonts
The Océ VarioPrint® 6000 MICR series supports all standard MICR fonts with this
machine.
Error handling
IPDS
In IPDS, a transaction print job with MICR fonts requires that the machine is in MICR
mode. When the machine is not in MICR mode, you will receive an error massage on
your host that MICR printing is not supported. This error can only be resolved by can-
celling the stream.
PCL
In PCL, this is not prevented. The data stream in PCL has no information on the used
MICR fonts and therefore, the system does not check whether it is in MICR mode. It is
the responsibility of the operator to check this.
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