Java Glossary : MICR

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MICR

If you look at the bottom of a cheque in Canada or the USA, the bank, branch and account number are written in a strange font MICR E-13B with magnetic ink.

Transit symbols surround the bank number.
Amount symbols surround the cheque amount.
On-us symbols surround the cheque sequence number. An on-us is also used after but, oddly, not before the account number.
Dashes just break the fields up to make them more human-readable.

Canadian Cheque Numbering	American Check Numbering

First comes the optional sequence number, then the bank transit number, then the bank institution number, then the branch/account, then the amount.	First comes the routing number, then the sequence number, then the account number, then the amount.

There is no standard check-digit scheme.

You can buy magnetic ink for inkjet printers and software to print cheques from G7 Productivity. You can buy magnetic ink for laser printers from many suppliers.

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