Tim,

Well, things done changed again.

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>1) The special magnetic laser toner used for MICR coding is so expensive (about 3 - 5x regular toner) that there is no monetary savings to be had from printing your own checks on blank stock,
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>***It is now a little less than 2x as much.
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>(3) Preprinted check stocks are fairly cheap in larger quantities, so buy many at one time, and
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>***Yes but if you are assigning the serial numbers preprinted on the check to a register in the software it only takes one paper jam to mess up the serial numbers which results in a nightmare for the client to resolve.

OK - you nailed the one very good reason to print one's own checks
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>One further note: It is a real mess to properly set up the MICR since the tolerances on position can't vary even 1/10 of an inch. Some printers in their day to day printing can mess this up. It may indeed be the best bet to use the preprinted checks.
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I though you could go as much as .250 inches before the bank's readers started hollering?

Regards,