Patent ID: 8132717

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) operating an automated transaction machine to read information provided during a user session with the machine, wherein the information includes identifying data, wherein the identifying data is usable to identify the user as an authorized user of the machine, wherein the identifying data is usable to identify a checking account, wherein the checking account is associated with a checking account number, wherein the machine includes at least one reader and at least one printer, wherein the machine is associated with at least one computer that is operative to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to input provided by authorized users of the machine; (b) operating the machine during the user session to receive a user request for at least one check payable on the checking account; (c) subsequent to the user being identified as an authorized user of the machine, operating the machine responsive at least in part to the user request received in (b), to print at least one paper check payable on the checking account, wherein the at least one paper check includes at least one blank personal check for which the user would be the maker, wherein the at least one blank personal check includes a first check, wherein the first check has thereon both the checking account number, and a check number which sequentially follows a previous check number associated with the checking account; (d) operating the machine to dispense to the user, the at least one paper check printed in (c); (e) prior to (b), operating the machine to ask the user if the user wants to request at least one check payable on the checking account; wherein in (c) the first check has thereon a check number which sequentially follows a check number of a blank personal check previously provided to the user during a different user session with an automated transaction machine.