Even the magnetic ink used for special lettering on checks to make them harder to duplicate is available at most office supply stores.
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But many crooks quickly discovered that laser printers that print with magnetic ink are available, making the counterfeit check undetectable even to machines.
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The MICR subheading contains four characters standardized in the ISO 1004 : 1995 standard, from the magnetic ink character recognition E-13B font :,,, and.
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In the 1960s, D + H started to produce printed cheques with Magnetic Ink Character Recognition ( MICR ) encoding and began printing individually personalized bank cheques.
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The ink used is most commonly MICR ( Magnetic Ink Character Recognition ) toner particles but may also be polyester based toners and styrene acrylate polymer based toners.
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Also, engineers have had trouble making a magnetic ink that is strong enough for a loudspeaker, meaning Ferber's goal of a talking newspaper is at least several years away.
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Hanratty then went on to develop MICR magnetic ink characters that were used in cheque processing, before moving to General Motors to work on the groundbreaking DAC-1 CAD system.
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:In normal checks, the numbers at the bottom are written in special magnetic ink, in a special font ( E-13B ), so that they can be read by a machine.
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"' Magnetic ink character recognition code "'( "'MICR Code "') is a character-recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.
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All of the lettering displayed in this titling sequence is shown in a typeface based on the numeric E-13B font that was then in common use for magnetic ink character recognition.
