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5. MICR Features

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 regular Lexmark toner using all of the printer features available
such as network printer utilities. Source Technologies' printers support multiple printer
languages (for example - HP's PCL5 & PCL6, PostScript Level 2 emulations). The MICR
features require the PCL5e print data stream. Source Technologies has designed
features to enhance these printers with MICR mode specific operation 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 6 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 and CMC7 MICR fonts reside in the printer. Examples of these fonts are in
the Appendix of this manual.

Secure Fonts

Source Technologies has designed two fonts: Secure Numeric Font and ICR Secure
Numeric Font. These reside in the printer as well. Examples of these fonts are in the
Appendix of this manual.
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The ICR Secure Numeric Font is designed for the Convenience Amount Scan
Area of your check. It can be read optically by the image capture equipment used
by the financial institutions.
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The Secure Numeric Font should not be used in this area since the reverse
image aspect of this font prevents it from being read optically by this equipment.
We recommend using both of these fonts on your checks as they are designed to deter
check fraud.

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 some scanners
and copiers.
Most check printers use a MicroPrint 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, payee name, etc. The use of variable text provides an additional
method of protection against check counterfeiters.
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