Printing Checks with Plain Check Stock

If your business has five or more checking accounts which are used to disburse funds, this article is for you. We see this situation many times with property management companies, or large centralize payment operations, or services like book keepers or CPA’s who are writing checks against many checking accounts of their clients. The common complain is Solomon works great but I’m always forgetting to put the correct check stock into the printer.

There are several vendors who have solved this problem for you. One is call Check Factor from Trans-Micro (www.trans-micro.com ) and the other is called AP/PR checks from Maxqtech (www.maxqtech.com ).

Both products use special ink cartridges in your LaserJet printers to allow the proper MICR encoding at the bottom of your checks. You can have checks printed on standard check stock paper which look identical to a pre printed check. The software allows unlimited companies, and unlimited checking accounts, logos for each company, and pre signed signature, if you like.

I personally have had clients use the Trans-Micro software for over 10 years.

Besides printing payroll and AP checks, the software has some great capability for printing these forms: Purchase Orders, Product Order, Service Order, Regular Invoice, Service Invoice, Wide Invoice, and AR Statements.

This type of check printing software typically can be justified by these cost savings: 1) increased speed for processing checks since all checks print on black check stock, 2) costs to pre print you checks go away, and also the worry about running short of pre printed checks is greatly diminished, and 3) stop printing checks on the wrong company’s pre printed forms.

Sample of screens and checks with Maxqtech product: