Patent ID: 8245917

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including: at least one output device, wherein the at least one output device includes at least one display viewable by an authorized servicer of the machine, at least one machine input device, wherein the at least one machine input device includes at least one reader operable to read user data usable to identify a financial account of a user of the automated banking machine, at least one cash dispenser, a check acceptor, wherein the check acceptor includes a plurality of sensors at a plurality of sensor locations in the check acceptor, wherein each sensor is operative to sense a sheet located adjacent thereto, at least one computer, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with the at least one output device, the at least one machine input device, the at least one cash dispenser, and the check acceptor, wherein the at least one computer is operative to cause the at least one display to output a visual representation corresponding to the check acceptor, wherein output of the visual representation is dependent on the computer receiving at least one authorizing input from an Authorized servicer of the machine, wherein the visual representation includes a respective visual indicator for each of the respective sensor locations of the plurality of sensors in the check acceptor, wherein during testing of the check acceptor with a test sheet provided to the check acceptor during authorized servicing of the machine, the at least one computer is operative for each respective sensor, responsive at least in part to the respective sensor sensing the test sheet adjacent thereto, to cause a visual change in the respective visual indicator for the respective sensor location of the respective sensor.