MICR E13B Font Advantage Package

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:

"IDAutomation's Check Design Software has more versatility than other software. It is very intuitive, and the possibilities are infinite. The logic in the program is organized and straight forward. This is by far the easiest application to get up and running on the market. Couple that with the power of the program and it beats competition priced 5 or 10 times higher." - Ted Sapperstein, Dee Michaels Inc.

• 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.

  Intensity	Narrow 2	Narrow 1	Standard Width	Wide 1	Wide 2
  Extra Light	N2XL	N1XL	XL	W1XL	W2XL
  Light	N2L	N1L	L	W1L	W2L
  Normal	N2	N1	IDAutomationMICR	W1	W2
  Bold	N2B	N1B	B	W1B	W2B
  Extra Bold	N2XB	N1XB	XB	W1XB	W2XB
  * Differences in intensities and widths may be noticed only on printers with 600 dpi or greater resolution. ** Fonts named MICR and E13B are the same as IDAutomationMICR and support applications that require these specific names.

• Security Fonts: Security fonts allow a safer method of printing names and currency amounts to reduce the risk of bank check forgery.
  

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.

  "This MICR E13B Font Advantage Package enabled us to create a check writing solution that is much cheaper than any off the shelf, and able to integrate with current systems" - Eric Johnson, A.O. Smith WPC, Ashland City, TN

  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 the fonts 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.

MICR Font Technical Support

IDAutomation provides a variety of methods for customers who need support for the Bank Check Design and Printing Software:

• Troubleshooting MICR Font and Component Issues
• General Barcode Font Support Issues
• Contact Technical Support
• Resolved MICR Support Issues