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Version 6.0, July 2007
701P47409
Xerox FreeFlow® Print Server
MICR User Guide
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Table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 MICR features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Datastreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 MICR Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 MICR system differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 MICR fonts . . . . . . . . . .
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Table of contents ii MICR User Guide
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MICR The purpose of this document is to familiarize you with the MICR features and functions available with FreeFlow Print Server systems. It provides information on installing MICR fonts on the FreeFlow Print Server and documents the process for printing MICR forms. Other topics include: � Selecting MICR fonts � Setting up queues for printing MICR jobs � Verifying MICR output � Security (including Audit Control) For more information, refer to the Generic MICR Fundamentals Guide, provided
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MICR Printers The following printers support MICR: � DocuPrint 100/115/135/155/180 MX � DocuPrint 75 MX � Nuvera 100MX Digital Production System � Nuvera 120MX Digital Production System � Nuvera 144MX Digital Production System MICR system differences The systems have some differences in the adjustments they make when entering MICR mode, and in the fonts and datastreams they support. The following table shows how these printers differ in their support of MICR features. Table 1-1. MICR differ
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MICR fonts The Xerox-supplied MICR fonts are required to optimize the quality of the MICR line and ensure excellent performance. It is critical that the font character raster patterns and metrics are not modified in any way and that no new characters are added. NOTE: Xerox MICR fonts must be used. They may not be modified in any way. MICR fonts provided Xerox provides sets of E13B and CMC7 MICR fonts for PostScript, PCL, LCDS, and IPDS. The following sections describe the fonts that you
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� CMC74J.FNT � CMC74L.FNT � CMC74P.FNT � E14BI.FNT � E14BJ.FNT � E14BL.FNT � E14BP.FNT NOTE: For the LCDS datastream, the font resolution must be 300 dpi only. IPDS fonts The T1001032 code page includes these fonts: � X0AE13 (E13B font) � X0AT13 (E13B test font) � X0LE13 (Landscape E13B) � X0LT13 (Landscape test font) The T1001033 code page includes the CMC7 font X0ACMC. However, CMC7 fonts are not currently supported on the DP 75 MX. The Xerox AFP MICR fonts include all E13B characters, plus
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NOTE: When loading your fonts from CD, load the fonts from either the 600 dpi MICR Fonts CD or the 300 dpi CD. If both versions of the 9.12 point E13B PostScript font are present on the system at the same time, unpredictable results can occur. For this reason, two CDs are provided, each containing a different version of the 9.12 point E13B PostScript font. If you have loaded your MICR fonts from the 600 dpi CD and you want to print using the 300 dpi PostScript MICR font, you must first
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your CD are listed: � 600 dpi CD: E13B, E13B9, and CMC72510 are listed. � 300 dpi CD: E13B and CMC72510 NOTE: The DocuPrint 75 EPS does not support the CMC7 fonts. For these systems, select only E13B and E13B9 (if available). e. Highlight the required fonts, and click Install. A Question window tells you that loading the fonts from CD could take over 30 minutes. Click OK. Watch the lower-left corner of the window. The “Installing Fonts…Done” message is displayed briefly. f. Close the Inst
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Installing LCDS fonts To install the LCDS fonts: 1. From the Administration pull-down menu, select LCDS Resources. 2. From the Source pull-down menu, select CD-RW 0. 3. Click the Display button. The following eight LCDS fonts are listed in the resources section. � CMC74I.FNT � CMC74J.FNT � CMC74L.FNT � CMC74P.FNT � E13B4I.FNT � E13B4J.FNT � E13B4L.FNT � E13B4P.FNT 4. Select and highlight the fonts that you want to load, then right- click on them. 5. Select Import from the pop-up menu, then cli
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Selecting MICR fonts Checking the font version Selecting the wrong font can result in improper signal strength and high reject rates at the bank. To make sure that you have the font that you want, print a question mark, ?, in the MICR line. While the resulting document does not have a valid MICR line, the printed font is obvious. You can also print a test pattern. Refer to “Printing MICR test forms,” for the procedure. The test forms contain font version information: the font name, revi
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Table 1-2. Test Form Font Information CMC7 PostScript 600 dpi CMC7 609 PS CMC7 PCL 600 dpi CMC7 2510 PCL CMC7 LCDS 300 dpi CMC74P Portrait REV A CMC7 LCDS 300 dpi CMC74L Landscape REV A This information is located in different sections of the test form, depending on the datastream: � PostScript: In the bottom section of the test form, to the right of the word MICR and the paper size � PCL: In a box at the left edge of the form, below the Customer Signature line � LCDS: In the bottom sectio
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Figure 1-1. MICR Test Form 10 MICR User Guide
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Selecting PostScript fonts To select a Xerox Postscript font, set the attributes for one of the following: � Internal name: E13B Point size: 9.12 � Internal name: E13B9 Point size: 9 � Internal name: CMC72510 Point size: 9.06 The Postscript E13B MICR font has the same character mappings as the PCL fixed pitch E13B font. Refer to the Generic MICR Fundamentals Guide for a complete listing of the character mappings. NOTE: The 300 dpi Type 3 PostScript font can be used in all applications an
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NOTE: 600 dpi PCL fonts must not be used with a 300 dpi queue or with any 300 dpi resources. The resolution mismatch causes characters to be one dot further apart than is nominal. While this spacing meets industry standards, a high reject rate can result if the adjacent field spacing does not compensate for this error. You can use the PCL Unit of Measure command to set the PCL Unit to 600 (for example, &u600D). Alternatively, you can override the resolution to 600 dpi in the queue.
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Setting the font resolution Before printing MICR jobs, you must set the resolution attribute appropriately for the queue to which you will be sending the jobs. The following table lists the different MICR font formats and the resolution at which each font should be printed. Table 1-3. MICR Font formats Font name and format Required resolution E13B LCDS 300 DPI PS 300 DPI and 600 DPI PCL 300 and 600 DPI CMC7 LCDS 300 DPI PS 600 DPI PCL 600 DPI If your document contains scalable fonts or simple
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Setting the font resolution for the queue Before sending a document to a print queue, you must make sure that the resolution of the font used in the document is the same as that specified for the queue. If the font and queue resolutions do not match (for example, a document with a 600 dpi font is sent to a 300 dpi queue), the font may print with subtle distortions and could be rejected at the bank. Follow this procedure to set the font resolution as a queue property: 1. Select the Queue pul
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Image quality for PCL The MICR fonts provided with the MX printers have been optimized for MICR printing on these systems. Therefore, it is important that darkening of the bitmap font is disabled when printing PCL MICR documents. To ensure that bitmap font darkening is disabled, follow these steps: 1. Log on as Administrator. 2. Select the Printer pull-down menu and select Image Quality. 3. In the Raster Image Processors list, do one of the following: � If you are using the 300 dpi font (fo
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4. Add the new library to the MX font library concatenation. 5. Because the names of the Xerox AFP MICR fonts are the same as the IBM AFP MICR fonts, be careful not to overwrite the original IBM fonts. You may need to reference them later. New MICR implementation 1. Install the Xerox MICR fonts on the host AFP system. 2. Use the X0AE13 and X0AT13 fonts in your applications. 3. Refer to the code page and character set descriptions in the IBM manuals and Xerox supplements. 4. Ensure that the MI
