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Mac OS X
Fact
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The MICR E13B
Match™
font set and
the new MICR Calibration Wizard™ 4 for OS X
more accurate than the competition are
the state of the art, precise
and accomplished tools to produce reliable and anti-fraud checks
directly from your PC and laser printer. They are used worldwide, but most of all in United States and Canada.
Exclusive
: We measure the effective resolution of your printer,
to insure best results when the fonts are applied.
This package contains
fifteen (15) versions of the MICR E13 B Match™ fonts, corresponding to
the largest variety of printers and configurations, as well as
typesetting and printing equipment. This high precision OpenType font set is completed
by fourteen (14) exclusive anti-fraud SecureAmounts™ secure number
fonts.
Technical requirements
Macintosh
computer
High
resolution laser printer (300 dpi preferable) loaded with MICR
toner
Mac OS X
(10.5 and more recent, including Tiger and Leopard)
OTF
PostScript fonts and TTF OpenType fonts
included
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MICR E13B Match™ font set, MICR Calibration Wizard™, and SecureAmounts™
anti-fraud secure number fonts, V4.00. Macintoh OS X
Complete
typeface set (29 fonts) and Calibration Wizard for check printing
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Exclusive
MICR Calibration Wizard™ for Mac OS X
- The
exclusive MICR Calibration Wizard™ for Mac OS X will
let
you choose the best MICR font for your system, and it will at the same
time measure the accuracy and resolution of your printer ! The MICR
Calibration Wizard™ is 8 times more
accurate than the previous version, and the
competition.
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- Measurement
of the effective printer resolution
is exclusive to the MICR Calibration Wizard™ 4. Now not only can you get
the best MICR E 13B fonts for Macintosh, but you will be able to
measure without any doubt the real performances of your printer !
- The
Macintosh font set offer the most exacting, reliable MICR printing. We
provide both OpenType and TrueType fonts in the same package, so you
can print with your destop
printer, but also use the font at your printer shop.
- MICR (Magnetic
Ink Character Recognition)
strips are used by
U.S. and Canadian bank systems (plus other countries) to automate check processing, 68 Billion last year.
The MICR E13B characters must have very precise dimensions, to generate
reliable signal when going through the readers. Many MICR fonts around
do not meet these standards, and not all MICR fonts are created equal.
Some have positioning inaccuracies that create unreliable MICR strips,
and may generate errors in the bank processing equipment, leading to
manual processing fees.
 The
MICR E13B Match™ font set has been created with extremely accurate
positioning, and tested with the finest benchmark systems. Under ideal
conditions, there should be only one font in use, the MICR E13B Match,
which has been created specifically to meet the ANSI and ABA (X9,
27-1995) banking standards when printed at exactly point size 12.
Unfortunately, the printing chain is such, that several weak links
can hinder results. Even the most precise of font data is translated at
least twice along the printed chain : first, by the Macintosh printer
driver, which converts the font outlines it into data instructions
(PostScript or PCL) usable by the printer, and secondly, by the printer
internal logic circuits, which translates the outlines in pixel data that
will drive the actual printing hardware. Even, at that last stage,
outlines are not printed as simple lines, but as a very fine matrix of
dots, by a laser beam, LED, or another technology. So a full set of
fonts is provided, with dimensions 1% apart from each other. Two
smaller sizes (MICRE13 M1 and MICRE13 M2) provide 1% and 2% smaller
printing, respectively. Two bigger sizes (MICRE13 P1 and MICRE13 P2)
provide 1% and 2% larger printing, respectively. The MICR Calibration
Wizard™ will let you easily choose the best font for your entire
printing chain, hardware and software.
Measuring
resolution
This exclusive feature uses the same techniques applied to photography
testing for decades, but still seldom used in the computer community. Our
fonts contains special characters at precise resolution, that will
enable you to effectivelly verify if your printing chain
(from fonts to printer, through system, applications, drivers, imagers)
is up to specs.
 Here is a
12 points printing enlarged about 20 times of a special testing character that prints a total
of alternated black and white strips, here 600 lines per an inch, at 45%. angle ("oblique")
A
stringent
test will give no chance to shacky printers, and insure perfect results
with our utmost precise fonts.
SecureAmounts™
secure number anti-fraud typefaces
- In
addition to the MICR fonts, we supply an exclusive collection of 14
secure number fonts called SecureAmounts™. Each of them uses the best
technology available, to defeat washing, grating, rubbing, and
modification of amounts printed on a check. Like the latest US dollar
bills, for instance, the SecureAmounts™ 1-6 fonts use waves of
fine-line printing, extremely difficult to modify or counterfeit. This
is an exclusive feature of this MICR font set.
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- These
fonts support several useful monetary symbols, such as dollars, cents,
pound sterling, yen, and euro. The euro symbol is supported in the
normal fashion, and accessible through the usual keyboard combinations
as defined by Microsoft. Some tiny lines on the samples printed below
will only show correctly on printers with a resolution 600dpi or
higher. You may want to use a magnifying glass to see small details in
these finely crafted, exclusive typefaces when they are printed.
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