What is the difference between MICR toners from standard toners?
Apart from being able to provide high quality images and text documents, MICR toners would allow you to print out custom-designed checks that would be accepted by most banks. This is because MICR toner cartridges are developed with magnetic toners. This is extremely important for check printing. Banks would often check the authenticity of a check through the use of a machine that checks the magnetic pattern embedded on the check. If the bank’s machine does not recognize this would have to be manually encoded and cause you to pay a fee for the check processing. What printers can use MICR toners? Because of the bank requirement for magnetic ink detection, MICR toners can only be used in laser printers. As of the moment, MICR toner cartridges are compatible with Hewlett-Packard and Lexmark laser printers only. Font and MICR toners To print out checks, you would need a special font that is used to print out the E-13B check information on the MICR line of the check. Most check printing soft
