Patent ID: 7066668

Claim:
A method of creating an image replacement document (IRD) during a single pass of sheet material through a printing apparatus, the method comprising: building a first print file portion based upon IRD data; building a second print file portion based upon IRD data; building a third print file portion based upon IRD data; encoding with magnetic ink onto the sheet material at least some information based upon the first print file portion to create a first front portion of the IRD during the single pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus; printing with non-magnetic ink onto the sheet material at least some information based upon the second print file portion to create a second front portion of the IRD during the single pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus; and printing with non-magnetic ink onto the sheet material at least some information based upon the third print file portion to create a rear portion of the IRD during the single pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus.