Talk:Magnetic ink character recognition

message: Can anyone explain what these OCR and MICR characters mean:
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They can be found in Unicode area U+2440 – U+245F Optical Character Recognition
--Abdull 19:23, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation?

message: How about some information on why the characters look the way they do, etc? --대조 | Talk 10:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character design 

message: I think that the citation may be out of date.  If inkjet printers are not suitable for MICR printing (according to the cited page ), then what exactly is VersaInk? (see ) —TheMuuj Talk 02:14, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ink Jet 

message: Can anyone direct me to a free lookalike E-13B font? --38.116.200.66 14:26, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lookalike font 

message: This is an American technology, so "checks" should use the modern spelling.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.40.244.61 (talk) 01:06, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not entirely. Groupe Bull in France deployed the CMC-7 MICR technology the year before E13B came out in the US. --scruss (talk) 23:00, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  American technology 

message: Magnetic Ink redirects here; What is magnetic ink? can anyone expand?
62.90.54.24 (talk) 15:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magnetic Ink? 

message: New laws in effect require that all checks must be digitally scanned.
From what I understand checks are now mostly read optically rather than magnetically.
Perhaps this should be reflected somewhere, but I have no references.
68.2.35.62 (talk) 19:25, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The bank that I work at uses a digital scanner which complies to the Check 21 act. It reads the amount of the cheque (which is of course written in non-magnetic ink, usually by hand) optically but reads the MICR magnetically. This allows for much more accurate information when trasferring information between banks. One wrong digit and thousands of dollars could be lost. Due to the high accuracy rate of elecromagnetic MICR reading, it makes more sense to use it in this fashion. ~  PHDrillSergeant...§ 14:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think MICR is being phased out due to new laws... 

message: Someone needs to define the term par-crossing in this caption. There is no information in Wikipedia or Wiktionary or anything reliable online to define this evidently arcane banking term. It should be either defined or changed to something more readily understood by us ordinary English-speaking WP users.--Jim10701 (talk) 02:44, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Par-crossing? 

message: The intro says the MICR line includes the check amount but does not mention the check number. How could/does the check amount get printed on the check? Why doesn't the intro mention the check number? 2601:186:8100:65E4:2409:E043:9C9:4216 (talk) 02:48, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check amount? 

message: SemanticMantis suggested at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing that "Probably we could use an article on E13-B font, rather than just a redirect to MICR." It seems to me that that would mean that there would be ultimately three articles, one for MICR in general, one on MICR E-13B and one on MICR CMC-7. While that would be possible, I feel it's better they are covered together, since (a) they share much information, (b) it is good to have them in one page to compare them, (c) the article is small as it is and does not need to be split, and (d) only start class and (e) low on WikiProject Typography's importance scale. — Sebastian 20:21, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split this article? 

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message: Explain 118.107.143.241 (talk) 13:02, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Megnetic ink character reader