IDAutomation MICR E13B Font

MICR E13B Font Advantage Package

•Generate MICR E13B characters for bank check printing in the United States, Canada and other countries.

•Includes easy to use  Bank Check Design Software and IDAutomation Security Fonts for printing secure names and currency amounts.

•In use since 1998, created from strict ANSI and ISO specifications, and meets ABA banking standards.

•Advanced, precise MICR design may eliminate the need to calibrate fonts to the printer.

•Digitally Signed TrueType and OpenType fonts are provided for security purposes. The package also includes PostScript and PCL fonts.

•Used in many applications including Oracle eBusiness Suite, Peachtree and Quickbooks.

•Includes 24 additional MICR fonts at various widths and intensities with calibration software for printers that are out of alignment.

•Compatible with Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, Pocket PC and other operating systems.

•The following are included with a purchase of the Developer License or above:

Web Fonts in WOFF, EOT and SVG formats to easily display barcodes in any web browser.

Silent installation executables with source scripts to create custom installations.

MICR E13B Font Overview and Features

MICR E13B is a special font that is used on bank checks and drafts in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Panama, UK, and other countries to print E13B characters for magnetic recognition and optical character recognition systems. This MICR font contains 10 specially-designed numeric characters 0 through 9, and four special symbols: transit, amount, on-us, and dash.

Industry Standard Support:

ANSI and ISO Compliant:   IDAutomation's MICR E13B fonts were created according to ISO 1004:1995 and meet the ANSI X9.27-1995 specification for MICR E13B characters.

  Because they were created from the ISO spec, the fonts meet the E13B specification for other countries as well. Examples include:  Australian APCA Pub 3.3

  Canadian Payments Association Standard 006 Specification for MICR-Encoded Cheques.

  These fonts have been proven to pass the ABA banking standards in the USA for bank checks and paper-based drafts.

  IDAutomation MICR fonts have also been tested on several MICR readers and sorters including the UNISYS DP500 and the IBM 3890.

  MICR Print Specifications: These specifications are a summary of the placement requirements obtained from the ABA (American Banker's Association).

Multiple Versions Provided:

The IDAutomationMICR font was created to precisely match each of the printer's pixels when printing at 300 dpi or multiples of 300 dpi above. This MICR font eliminates the need to calibrate the font to the printer, or to use different fonts on different printers, unless the printer is out of alignment. For printers that are out of alignment, additional fonts are provided with a calibration tool.

•24 Additional Fonts: Additional MICR fonts are provided for printers that are out of alignment.

The following fonts are provided in the package; all font names begin with IDAutomationMICR.

Bank Check Design and Printing Software:

The 2015 version of the Bank Check Design and Printing Software adds .NET Framework 2.0 native compatibility, Windows 8 and 10 compatibility and includes performance enhancements to the printing, drawing and viewing processes.

The software supports importing of signature and logo images, secure number amounts and has many other powerful features such as VB scripting and database connectivity to CSV files, Excel, Access, Oracle and SQL Server.

•Accounting Software Compatibility: Some accounting packages such as Peachtree 8 or greater allow IDAutomation MICR fonts to be used on custom check forms. If an accounting application has this capability, MICR fonts can save money on check printing by helping to streamline the process.

•Visual Basic Source: The Visual Basic source code included with the MICR Font package has been extracted from a working check printing application and should provide insight into automated methods of printing bank checks with IDAutomation MICR E13B fonts.

Multiple Formats Provided:

When a license is purchased for this font package, the following typefaces are included:

•Digitally Signed: The latest version of this package includes embedded digital signatures within the TrueType and OpenType fonts.

•TrueType fonts are supplied as digitally signed, OpenType with TrueType TTF outlines.

They are compatible with Mac OS X and all versions of Microsoft Windows®, including XP, Windows 7, 8 & 10, Server 2012 and mobile devices including iOS, Android and .NET Compact Framework.

•OpenType OTF fonts with digital signatures and PostScript outlines are provided. These are compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other systems supporting the OpenType format.

•PostScript Type 1 fonts are supplied as PFB and PFA files including Mac specific versions.

•PCL LaserJet soft fonts at 300 and 600 DPI.

Included with the purchase of a Developer License:

•With a purchase of the Developer License or above, a full set of Web Fonts are included in WOFF, EOT and SVG formats to easily display barcodes in any web browser.

•IDAutomation MICR fonts enable embedding in special PDF document applications such as Adobe Writer, Distiller, PDF Lib and FOP TTF Reader. with the purcahse of a Developer License and above. This level of embedding also supports creation of OpenType and TrueDoc fonts for web pages.

For bank checks in Mexico, France, Spain and most Spanish-speaking countries, MICR CMC-7 fonts should be used.