Patent ID: 7066669

Claim:
A method of creating an image replacement document (IRD) during first and second passes of a 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; during the first 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 first print file portion to create a front portion of the IRD; during the first 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 back portion of the IRD; during the first pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus, printing with non-magnetic ink onto the sheet material a machine-readable code which is associated with corresponding magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) codeline data stored in memory; during the second pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus, reading the machine-readable code which has been printed onto the sheet material in the first pass; during the second pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus, retrieving from memory the stored corresponding MICR codeline data which is associated with the machine-readable code which has been read from the sheet material; and during the second pass of the sheet material through the printing apparatus, printing with magnetic ink onto the sheet material an encoded MICR codeline which is represented by the retrieved MICR codeline data.