How to print your own checks [Runs a Business? Must Read]

Are you the one who wants to prints the checks at their own. Reason can be for personal use, laziness, bulk cheque printing or any mess your banks created for you regarding the limitation of check issue with dollars.

My reason to print cheques at my own is that I love customization which depicts the professionalism, accountability and yeah I’m lazy too. If I can print checks at my own why do I need to go elsewhere?

Printing the check at own will let you save the ton of time. All you have to take care of the security features and design of the check that your bank provides to you.

DIY – Do you own the right things for printing check at own?

1. Blank Check Stock Papers
2. Software
3. Magnetic Ink
4. MICR Font
5. Printer

Let’s eleborate why you need these above things to print the checks at home.

1. Check Stock Paper-

This is not the ordinary paper, although we can you the ordinary paper but Best10Lab highly recommend to use the Check Stock Paper. Reason is simple, the specially made paper has the lot of security features and it will get cut the perfect standard recctangular dimensions of a check.

Security Features such as microprinting, watermarks, erasre protection, anti-photocopy background etc. Even the customization of text or logos can be easily made on such papers.

2. Free or Paid Software –

This is the most frequently asked questions in the mind if you are planning to print your own checks. Everyone loves to safe money and once in while they think that we should go for free things rather than paid software. Keep reading we will come to the point who is better free or paid. 

We can use free softwares such as excel or word, but in such things we have to face two main problems- One is special skills of design (or setting up of cheque design) and another is MICR Front. Technically we have to work with free softwares.

On the other hand best paid softwares for printing checks are listed below:

1. QuickBooks – Here is the Guide also on how to load and print checks.
2. EzCheck Printing.
3. Xero, – Here is simple guide to print US and Canada Check with Xero.
4. CheckBuilderPro3 – for Macintosh and Windows.
5. Checkkeper
6. Relyco, etc

All of the above mentioned cheque printing softwares not only provide you the pre format but also it will keep you updated with the checks security.

Another advantage of paid softwares are that you don’t need any special graphic skill. Hence it will save your time and money.

Also keeping record for the each check will feasible and we can track every detail later on aswell.

We highly recommend the paid softwares if you required for bussiness purposes.

3. Special Ink – Magnetic Ink:

The usage of this special purpose ink is worldwide on every checks. But with the technology, you may or may not require this magnetic ink. As modern checks readers are optical these days so magnetic ink is not required. Also if you checks through mobile banking, then also magnetic ink is of now use.

Again Best10Lab.com highly recommend the usage of Magnetic ink to print those special characters at the bottom of the check. Reason is that we don’t know if other banks are 100% using updated technology or not. And in bussiness world we can’t afford such risks.

4. MICR Fonts- Magnetic Ink Character Recognition.

Such special fonts require special ink named as magnetic ink. Checks need MICR code for the routing purpose of checks. These fonts are read by special computers to process checks. Then such MICR codes gets converted into digital form to process the transaction.

MICR font is required at the bottom part of check. Mainly routing number and your check number is written with such fonts.

These MICR fonts are available freely on internet. But it can be puchased from amazon also. Such fonts you will required only in case you would use free printing softwares.

5. Printers – special one or ordinary.

Any printer can do this work, it can be inkjet or laserject. Because all you have to do is give a print command from your Mac or Windows based Machine.

Here are the best guide which can help you in choosing the best printer for printing checks, all the research has been done by proffessionals to save your money and time.

Once You have gathered all these 5 things mentioned above. You are ready to print check in bulk or customised.

1. Install the printer with your MAC, Windows, Linux or any other Operating system.

2. Have Magnetic Ink to the printers.

3. Install/Download the MICR Fonts.

4. Prepare you checks with the software.

5. Give the print using the special check stop paper.