I’ve yet to find one…

I just deleted their comment. I suspect they just found the post with their keyword and added a link. There’s no way they even came close to reading it, which is why it’s now gone.

Thank you, but unfortunately I’m looking for a hardware printer and not a software solution that will print checks.

The key is that we want to offer check printing within our software product (LandlordMax but we don’t want to have to deal with every possible printer solution. This means printer alignments, support for different check sizes, check types, etc. We’re looking for a hardware solution that works just like the Dymo Label Printer where all you’d have to do is send the values to the API (date, payee, amount, etc.) and everything else is taken care of for you.

Thank you very much though for taking the time to help us out, it’s very appreciated.

A quick check of Google and I found this for you – http://www.eftechusa.com/p_cp_buss.htm

It looks like just what you need.

Sean

MICR is still a requirement, which makes it a bit harder to create a check printer. But it still shouldn’t be rocket science. And even if it was twice as expensive as a regular label printer, I have no doubt you’d have a lot of takers. I’d buy one today!

And you’re absolutely right, the printing technology would have to be different. Although I absolutely love the thermal printing technology on the Dymo label printers, it was a great design decision, it won’t work for checks.

Dymo LabelWriters and other direct thermal label/barcode printers use heat to ‘burn’ the image onto a heat sensitive label, so they would not be suitable for printing cheques. Unless the system has changed and MICR is no longer a requirement (or if your MICR account info is pre-printed onto the cheques by the cheque supplier)

But either way as the cheques aren’t heat sensitive you can’t use a direct thermal printer to fill in the rest of the details.

You said it exactly, “it would be nice if there was something available for the smaller business”.

Even if the printer didn’t print everything, and you had to have rolls of checks pre-fabricated for you (like most people order checks now), it would still be a lot better than what we have now. Plus this way you wouldn’t need to store your account information on your computer.

The other thing to remember is that if it’s on someone’s desk, they’re probably the only person using the check printer. If you have multiple writing checks from the same printer, then you’re probably dealing with an enterprise solution.

But as a last precaution, you can just omit the signature, there’s no difference between the personal checkbook I have right now and having a roll of checks sitting in a printer

Like I say, a multi-million dollar enterprise…it would be nice if there was something available for the smaller business, although I would be concerned about all the security features…there is such a thing as it being TOO convenient to write checks.