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Source Technologies 1352 MICR 40 All in One Printer User Manual

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1. Example lt ESC gt 12345X UEL PJL INFO MICR INFO MICR Command lt ESC gt 12345X UEL The following data is returned PJL INFO MICR PRINTER STATE READY BUSY NOT READY SERIAL NUMBER XXXXXXXX PAGECOUNT 123456 CARTRIDGE TYPE NORMAL MICR CARTRIDGE STATUS UNKNOWN OK LOW EMPTY CARTRIDGE SERIAL XXXXXXXX TONER LEVEL 0 9 UNKNOWN CARTRIDGE COUNT XXXX LOW THRESHOLD XXXX EMPTY THRESHOLD XXXX e Printer State o Ready is the expected return Serial Number Printer Serial Number Page Count Printer Page Count Cartridge Type o MICR is the expected return Normal could mean the command was sent to a non MICR printer e Cartridge Status o OK Low and Empty are the expected returns Unknown is possible if the cartridge had just been installed e Cartridge Serial Cartridge Serial Number Source Technologies LLC 73 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix G e Toner Level o A single digit return giving a rough estimate of toner remaining o 9 Full 0 Empty e Cartridge Count xxxx o Data indicating toner usage by counting pixels printed e Low Threshold xxxx o The Toner Low point based on cartridge count value e Empty Threshold xxxx o A cartridge count value that determines when printing must stop to ensure quality MICR documents PJL MICR Command Example Figure 8 1 is an illustration of an Accounts Payable check and remittance information The page
2. APS PS Sf AGFA AcouSet S00SF v52 3 bat BP The der tay sores Teil me driver signing is important Ce EE 15 Click Have Disk Source Technologies LLC 12 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 16 Select Browse Browse Install From Disk to the driver files on your disk and then select Insert the manufacturer s installation disk and then make sure that the correct drive is selected below Open 17 Select OK Copy manufacturer s files from r om n D Z WC printers Drivers univsl drivers print wine 2kxp BETA Browse 18 Select Source Found New Hardware Wizard Tech n ol og s Add Printer Wizard from the Manufacturer list and then click Select the manufacturer and model of your printer If your printer came with an installation Next cd disk click Have Disk If your printer is not listed consult your printer documentation for a compatible printer Manufacturer A Printers Lexmark Sf Source Technologies SINDORICOH Source Technologies TOSHIBA Unisys EF This driver is digitally signed Tell me why driver signing is important 19 Select Yes to continue Update Driver Warning Installing this device driver is not recommended because Windows cannot verify that it is compatible with your hardware If the driver is not compatible your hardware will not work correctly and your computer might become unstable or stop working complete
3. Source Technologies LLC Hex Values 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 62 CMC7 Font Values ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix B lil Ii Equal 3D UI illl reater Than gt 3E LT Note The CMC7 Font in the example above is magnified for purposes of clarity Source Technologies LLC 63 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix C Appendix C Secure Numeric Font Mapping Command amp SMFddd dd Description Alpha Numeric Hex Value Secure Font Character Character M Dollar Sign 23 De Left Bracket 28 d Right Bracket 29 TE Asterisk 2A ES Comma 2C r Dash 2D ree Period 2E Se S TE Slash 2F Sai e Zero 0 30 SMS Ez ES One 1 31 Ee Source Technologies LLC 64 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix C Appendix C continued Secure Numeric Font Mapping Description Alpha Numeric Hex Value Secure Font Character Character p Two 2 32 Es Three 3 33 A Slam E E pe m Four 4 34 SE Five 5 35 sqq Six 6 36 4 3 a Seven 7 37 gr dasz Eight 8 38 pen L nraril Nine 9 39 is iir j d E SIN M Arrow gt 3E Source Technologies LLC 65 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix C Example amp SMF gt gt gt 15 575 00 will print DOUAR gt p 494 49 ONE COMMA ONE TWO
4. activated by your software A MICR toner cartridge must be present to print the MICR fonts Secure Fonts Source Technologies has designed two fonts Secure Numeric Font and ICR Secure Numeric Font These are resident in your printer Examples of these fonts are in the Appendix of this manual Like MICR fonts these secure fonts can only be accessed after MICR mode is activated by your software e The ICR Secure Numeric Font is designed for the convenience area of your check It can be read by the imaging equipment used by many financial institutions e The Secure Numeric Font should not be used in this area since the reverse image aspect of this font prevents it from being read by this equipment We recommend using both of these fonts on your checks as they are designed to deter check fraud MicroPrint Your Secure MICR Printer also contains the MicroPrint font MicroPrint is text less than 010 tall It can easily be read with a magnifying glass but appears to be a solid line to an unaided eye This font provides protection against reproduction by most scanners and copiers because they cannot successfully print the tiny letters Source Technologies LLC 31 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 Most check printers use this font in the signature area of their preprinted checks We recommend using this font to help deter check fraud The text in this font can either be fixed such as the name of your organization
5. the user could send the command in a flat file totally separate from the printing application Once set the printer is now set for MICR printing OFF format returns the printer to the factory default value Because DEFAULT commands alter information stored in non volatile memory the frequency of switching between DEFAULT ON amp OFF should be limited to around 5 daily thereby protecting the memory from early failure Source Technologies LLC 70 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix G Fonts and Secured Resources The ST Secure MICR printer has five fonts password protected in Flash memory The printer requires PJL commands with the correct password value to unlock the font resources followed by PCL to print the fonts They are then re locked by PJL commands or by a printer power cycle The PJL commands to unlock the fonts must precede all PCL commands The re lock PJL commands must follow the PCL commands and final form feed command The PCL commands could print an unlimited number of pages between the unlock and re lock sequences The following examples will use lt ESC gt to indicate the Escape character ASCII 27 Values shown in parentheses are hexadecimal PJL Unlock Sequence lt ESC gt 12345X PJL LDECLARE LRESOURCE flash LRWLOCK PASSWORD 0D 0A PJL ENTER LANGUAGE PCL 0A The sequence contains a UEL Universal Exit Language command followed by the unlock and enter language commands The commands
6. this is 97 inches across and 10 61 inches down We are precisely positioning the MICR line Print E 13B MICR Command This prints the MICR line Note Refer the MICR font character mapping in Appendix A PCL command to Pop return the cursor to the pushed position 47 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide IBM Host Programming Features and Examples 7 Escape Character Translation In many IBM host environments the programmer cannot send an ESC character ASCII hex 1B to the printer from within the application Your Secure MICR Printer allows you to define the ESC character as a printable character or a combination of two printable characters You can select combinations of 1 or 2 characters which are translated to a Hex 1B when they are sent to the printer The command amp 96STYxxyy is used to select the character or character combination The pair xx represents the first characters ASCII hex value yy represents the second characters hex value Example The symbols should be translated into the escape character amp STY4040 After this is sent to the printer anytime an is received in exact sequence the pair is translated into the ESC character Hex 1B A single would print normally If yy is equal to 00 only the first character is used for the escape character Example The symbol should translate into the escape character amp STY4000 After this is sent to the printer anytime an is received
7. 11 2055 55 41 11 2014 44 amp 1B s1p16v0s3b4148T1000 amp 1B 3 amp SQ6October 5 2005 amp SMF 2014 44 amp 1B s0p12h10v1s0b4099T eiiim wo Thousand Fourteen and 44 100 DOLLARS amp 1B 3 amp SQ4 2014 44 amp SQ3 Vendor Systems 927 Warehouse Road Kansas City MO 59782 amp 961B 20000X amp 1B 3 amp 1BS amp FOS amp 1B p296x3184Y amp SMD 00001000 123456789 1234567890123 amp 1BS8F1S amp SQ710 33 45 AM amp STORE amp amp Source Technologies LLC 55 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 Figure 8 2 Audit Trail Check Sample The datastream in Figure 8 1 will print the following check assuming the check macro and signature are loaded as flash resources aw CN X DUPLICATE FILE COPY CHECK NO 1000 vrwnog wo MA same VENDOR SYSTEMS cneck patt October 5 2005 REFERENCE NUMBER INVOICE DATE GROSS AMOUNT DISCOUNT TAKEN NET AMOUNT PAID 99999 1234567 136784 555555 1000 00 200 00 800 00 5 55 20 00 4 00 16 00 1 11 980 00 196 00 784 00 54 44 TOTALS 1000 Ser CHECK NO VENpor so 200 name VENDOR SYSTEMS October 5 2005 CHECK DATE REFERENCE NUMBER INVOICE DATE GROSS AMOUNT 99999 1234567 136784 555555 1000 00 200 00 800 00 55 55 DISCOUNT TAKEN NET AMOUNT PAID TOTALS 2055 55 2014 44 M tog Peer eesi MAL First National Bank CHECK No 1000 Ss Charlotte NC 28273 of Any Slate 6
8. Day Month and Year is also acceptable Amount The amount of the check is a required data element for negotiation The amount usually appears at least twice on the check The amount printed in numbers is called the convenience amount The amount printed in words is sometimes referred to as the legal amount this is the amount that applies if there is a difference between the two amount fields The amount may also be printed a third time on the check in a secure font intended to make alteration of the amount field difficult Please refer to Chapter 6 and Appendix B for information on Source Technologies Secure Numeric Font Convenience Amount The convenience amount location is specified in ANSI X9 7 The basic location is illustrated in Figure 3 1 Since this amount can be machine scanned its location and design should be kept within the specifications The amount beginning with the dollar sign should be left justified within the scan area with numbers spaced normally to the right The dollars and cents should be separated by a decimal point with the cents printed in the same size font as the rest of the field Embedded commas should not be used The convenience amount background should have good reflectance so it does not interfere with optical scanning see ANSI X9 7 The convenience amount should be printed in a simple fixed pitch font We recommend our ICR Secure Numeric Font see Appendix C It was designed to be easily read by image c
9. Marks the start of an audit record and begins a PJL job This command must be inserted in the datastream after MICR Mode is entered and before the first flagged field appears It should be sent at the beginning of each check record End Audit Record amp STORES amp STORE Lead in sequence Command terminator Ends the Audit Record and the PJL job ignored if there was no Start Audit Record Command Audit Report Field One amp SQ1d d amp SQ1 Lead in sequence d d Data to be stored Command terminator Source Technologies LLC 51 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 This command identifies the data to be printed in the first column of the report It is a maximum of 14 characters in length If less than 14 characters are sent the printer fills the field with spaces when the audit report is printed This field is only recorded in the audit report it is not printed on the check Audit Report Field Two MICR Line amp SMDd d or amp SM7d d amp SMD or amp SM7 d d Lead in sequence Data to be printed Command terminator This command identifies the data to be printed in the second column of the report It is a maximum of 40 characters in length Audit Report Field Three amp SQ3d d amp SQ3 Lead in sequence d d Data to be printed Command terminator This command identifies the data to be printed in the third column of the report It is a maximum of 40 characters A
10. Once the file is downloaded browse to the folder where saved and double click the zip file to extract the driver contents For example the zip file for Windows 2000 XP and Windows Server 2003 is Universal Driver 2KXP03 x86 zip Note The remainder of the instructions applies to Windows XP The exact steps may vary depending on the particular operating system you are using Unzipping the Driver 1 Double click the driver zip file to launch the unzip program installed on your computer Follow the steps for your particular unzip program to extract the files Make sure the Save with Paths option is selected Browse to the location where you wish to extract the files such as the Desktop and then extract the files The extracted zip files will be saved to the location selected in the previous step For example if you saved the file to the Desktop you should now find a new folder on the Desktop named Source Tech Driver Source Technologies LLC 7 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Installing the Driver Note Do not connect the printer at this time 1 From the Source Tech Driver folder double click the driver installation program Note The name of the driver s exe program will vary depending on the operating system being used There will only be one executable file included with the driver l x86 PCL Emul Universal Driver v1 3 InstallShield Wizard Welcome to
11. The following are the key PJL and PCL commands required to access MICR resources in the printer For the complete source of information on PJL and PCL languages consult the Lexmark Technical Reference documentation PJL MICRJOB The MICRJOB command PJL MICRJOB forces Copy count 1 and Jam Recovery OFF In addition if your MICR printer has been custom configured to support both standard and MICR cartridges the MICRJOB command will request a MICR cartridge be installed The function of the MICRJOB PJL command has been expanded to support both SET and DEFAULT PJL options Previous ST Secure printers only supported the PJL MICRJOB option that performed similar to a PUL SET The QPJL MICRJOB is still supported and unchanged SET and DEFAULT formats for the MICRJOB command There are two formats of the SET MICRJOB command PJL SET MICRJOB ON PJL SET MICRJOB OFF The ON value functions similar to the older PJL MICRJOB command It must be included with the MICR printing application The OFF value can allow a particular job to be processed as a non MCR job if the DEFAULT MICRJOB ON was the current status of the printer There are two formats of the DEFAULT MICRJOB Command PJL DEFAULT MICRJOB ON PJL DEFAULT MICRJOB OFF factory default The ON value forces all jobs to be treated as MICR jobs This new command format allows users who could not embed the MICRJOB into their MICR printing application to send MICRJOB separately For example
12. are case sensitive PASSWORD is the initial default password value The command delimiter is a Line Feed hex 0A with Carriage Return hex OD being optional Spaces are required as shown The ENTER LANGUAGE command is optional but recommended The command should also end with a LF hex 0A At this time all secured resources including any resources that are customer unique in Flash are unlocked and available to PCL The password value is limited to no more than 8 alphanumeric case sensitive characters PJL Re Lock Sequence lt ESC gt 12345X PJL LDELETEPASSWORD LRESOURCE flash 0D 0A lt ESC gt 12345X This sequence re locks the resources with no change in the password value The PJL syntax of LDELETEPASSWORD is not the password The command sequence terminates with the UEL command Universal Exit Language This is optional but recommended PJL Re Lock Sequence With A New Password Value lt ESC gt 12345X PJL DEFAULT LRESOURCE flash LRWLOCK xxxxxxxx 0D 0A lt ESC gt 12345X This command requires the resources to be previously unlocked The new password is represented by the value xxxxxxxx The UEL is again optional but recommended After consulting Lexmark Technical Reference materials you may wish to expand the PJL sequences to include more than the examples above To chain multiple PJL commands follow the following format UEL PJL COMMAND 0A PJL COMMAND 0A PJL COMMAND OA UEL or ENTER LANGUAGE The
13. fields for inclusion in the Audit Report does not effect how they print on a check Audit Trail Menu The MICR menu contains a section for the Audit Trail options Menu options are Audit Location Record Sorting Overlay Sum Field 4 and Print Report Audit Location Choose to store audit data on flash or disk The display will show No Device if neither is installed Flash is the default if both are present Audit Record Sorting This enables sorting of the report by the first 20 digits in the MICR line field In an unsorted report the records are in the order in which they were printed Overlay To assist in reading an Audit Trail report you have the option of using a form overlay This overlay can provide lines boxes and shading for a more user friendly report format The Audit Trail Report overlay can be stored in printer flash or RAM We recommend storing it in flash It must have an ID of 5001 It is enabled by accessing the MICR menu via the printer s front panel Select Audit Menu gt Overlay This overlay will now be merged with the record details every time the Audit Trail Report is printed Sum Field 4 The values in field four of the Audit Trail Report can be added together with the total provided at the end of the report This feature is activated through the MICR menu Select Audit Menu Sum Field 4 Source Technologies LLC 50 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 The values in field 4 mus
14. in string D option s Command terminator This command prints and purges the Audit Report All recorded information is deleted The optional field can be any combination of the following letters Total Field 4 Overlay Sort by MICR line Communicate send report to host instead of printing see additional information below on SPRINT command O0 04 For example the command amp SPURGESS sorts the records by the MICR line while the command amp 96SPURGESOS sorts the records by the MICR line and prints an overlay with the data Options can be forced on with these commands but they cannot be forced off In other words if the front panel overlay setting is on it cannot be forced off by a datastream command If the front panel overlay setting is off however a datastream command can activate this feature This command can only be accessed with a valid password command Print Audit Report amp SPRINTxx amp SPRINT Lead in string D option s Command terminator Prints the Audit Report Source Technologies LLC 53 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 The optional field can be any combination of the following letters Total Field 4 Overlay Sort by MICR line Unsuccessful report only Communicate send report to host instead of printing OC oO The report sent back to the host begins with SOH 0x01 and ends with EOT 04 Since the reports can be quite long they will likely be broken
15. into separate buffers which may be interspersed with non audit buffers such as PJL JOB status Each buffer will begin with an STX character 0x02 and end with ETX 0x03 Each record will be terminated with carriage return line feed 0xOD 0A Start Audit Feedback Command amp SAFS The printer will report to the host that sent this command every time an audit job successfully prints Each report will be a 151 byte string byte 1 STX 0x02 bytes 2 15 field 1 of the audit record from SQ1 16 55 field 2 from SMD 56 95 field 3 from SQ3 96 111 SQ4 112 119 SQ5 120 138 SQ6 139 150 SQ7 151 ETX 0x03 The printer will continue to report until it is cycled off and then back on Source Technologies LLC 54 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 Figure 8 1 Audit Trail Commands Example The following example shows the Audit Trail MICR Mode and Hex Transfer commands in use amp amp amp amp STFPASSWORDS amp SMCP0001 amp SAR amp STP10001 amp STP20000 B 2 6 66 CQ 3 1 XY 0 0 T 5 1 6 9 2 6 6 B2 02 3 0 3 6 3 3 466 2 3 3 0 1 1304C 1 2 6 B 3 030481 B 3 7 3 3 1000 amp SQ1200 200 Vendor Systems Oct 5 2005 99999 Oct 1 05 1000 00 1234567 Oct 205 200 00 36784 Oct 3 05 800 00 555555 Oct 3 05 5 5 00 2055 55 1000 200 Vendor Systems Oct 5 2005 99999 Oct 1 05 1000 00 20 00 1234567 Oct 205 200 00 4 00 136784 Oct305 800 00 16 00 555555 Oct305 55 55 1
16. is a voting member The latest versions of the standards and technical guidelines are available from Source Technologies LLC 20 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Overview 2 Hardcopy Softcopy Global Engineering Documents X9 Electronic Bookstore Phone 800 854 7179 or 303 397 7956 www X9 org click ESS Fax 303 397 2740 www ansi org click ESS global ihs com or http global ihs com http webstore ansi org The key standards that address check documents are as follows ANS X9 7 Specifications for Bank Check Background and Convenience Amount Field ANS X9 100 160 Specifications for Placement and Location of MICR Printing ANS X9 100 10 Paper Specifications for Checks ANS X9 100 20 Print and Test Specifications for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition MICR For those with an interest or need there are also US standards that address Deposit Tickets Check Endorsements the back of the check image interchange file formats and other MICR areas Users of our Secure MICR Printers are not required to have access to the above standards Our Technical Support staff maintains current knowledge of the standards and changes that affect the check industry in the US and other countries with unique requirements Source Technologies LLC 21 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Check Design 3 3 MICR Check Design General Features of Check Design To be a legal and negotiable document the necessary data elemen
17. it is translated into the ESC character This means that the printer will never print the character The only invalid single characters are the amp HEX 26 and a null 00 Example amp STY2300 amp 18D The printer would translate the number sign Hex 23 to the ESC character and it would act on the sequence Esc amp l8D which will set line spacing to 8 lines per inch If you want to reset the ESC character translation from the previous settings then you can send the amp STY Command to deactivate the translation Example amp STY0000 8 Source Technologies LLC 48 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide IBM Host Programming Features and Examples 7 Figure 7 2 Sample Check Note The printed output from the commands listed in Figure 7 1 is shown below amp DUPLICATE FILE COPY CHECK NO 1000 vrwnog sao 200 same VENDOR SYSTEMS CHECK patt October 5 2005 REFERENCE NUMBER INVOICE DATE GROSS AMOUNT DISCOUNT TAKEN NET AMOUNT PAID 99999 1000 00 980 00 1234567 p 200 00 196 00 136784 k 800 00 555555 55 55 TOTALS Se CHECK wu 1000 vgEwDOR Mo 200 name VENDOR SYSTEMS CHECK part October 5 2005 REFERENCE NUMBER INVOICE DATE GROSS AMOUNT DISCOUNT TAKEN NET AMOUNT PAID 99999 1000 00 1234567 200 00 136784 800 00 555555 S 55 55 TOTALS 2055 55 2014 44 Some Technologies LLC 2910 Whitehall Park Drive First National Bank CHECK No 1000 S Charlotte NC 28273 of Any State 66 156 800 92
18. name to this printer the driver and then decide if it IS to be the Type a name for this printer Because some programs do not support printer and server 1 name combinations of more than 31 characters it is best to keep the name as short as default printer Select poris Next gt Printer name Source Technologies non MICR Do you want to use this pinter as the default punter OYes 9 No lt Back Cancel 7 If you do not wish to share your printer on a network leave the Do Not share this printer button marked and choose Next Otherwise select the Share as radio button and enter the name you wish to assign to this shared printer Then choose Next If you wish you may enter the location of this printer and or any comments to associate with the printer and choose Next gt 8 You now have the option to print a test page to test the configuration of your printer Click Next 9 Select Finish to complete the installation 10 You can now setup your printer by browsing to the Printers folder and right clicking on your printer s icon From the menu click Properties Select the Advanced tab Select the Separator Page button Select Browse and locate the MICR off sep file 11 When you have made all of the desired changes choose OK to save your settings Source Technologies LLC 17 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Selecting the
19. operator panel select the SETUP MENU and then the MICRpoint Adjustment feature Horizontal and Vertical options are displayed It s through these Horizontal and Vertical options we can enter maximum value of 99 and also choose A horizontal value moves the characters to the right A vertical value moves the characters down Source Technologies LLC 42 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide For instructional value assume the current MICRpoint values are at 0 the default values For best positioning from using a gauge and the current printed output the MICR line needs to move up about 1 20th of an inch and to the right of the typical character width The MICR character 0 is 0 091 inches wide Move the line up 36 decipoints and to the right about 15 decipoints While in the MICR Menu with MICRpoint Adjustment selected select Horizontal There should be two values first a choice followed by some value In this case it s O or Default To Move horizontal 15 points use the UP DOWN arrow keys to select a positive value Then press the RIGHT arrow key Using the printer keypad enter 15 Then select the center key to save the values Again from the Horizontal Vertical options use the DOWN arrow and center key to enter Vertical values To move the MICR line UP requires a or negative value Use the UP DOWN keys to select and then use the RIGHT key to enter a value In this instructional case it s 36 Using the key p
20. or it can be variable such as the check amount and payee name The use of variable text provides an additional method of protection against check counterfeiters Use of the MP designate symbol to identify the line as MicroPrint is optional The MicroPrint font only contains alphanumeric characters Punctuation marks and spaces are ignored by this font and do not print Bi Directional Feedback Your Secure MICR Printer can provide MICR status messages to the check printing application This feature is valuable in a networked environment with multiple printers or with users utilizing a printer located in another area The application can get information on MICR settings such as toner cartridge type MICR or regular locked trays which trays are locked to non MICR applications resident fonts macros and audit trail settings The printer can send the application MICR error messages such as load MICR toner When the printer receives the PJL INFO STVARIABLES command it will report all MICR variables to the host The MICR variables can also be seen by accessing the printer s front panel menu Select Reports gt Menu Settings Page The second page of this menu shows the current MICR variable configuration If USTATUS DEVICE On the printer will report PJL error 40020 for any MICR error which causes the printer to go off line It will appear in this format PJL USTATUS DEVICE CODE 40020 DISPLAY MICR Password Error Press Go ONLINE
21. panel menu specific to MICR applications The complete menu is as follows Option Card Menu MICR Menu Security Lock Audit Menu Audit Location Flash Disk Record Sorting Overlay Sum Field 4 Print Report Setup Menu MICR Type Normal Optraforms Hex Transfer Density Control MICRpoint Use the menu button on the front of your printer to toggle through the menu options To select an option press the select V button An item is selected when it has an asterisk after it The Security Lock option allows the user to activate and set a front panel combination for additional security This feature prevents anyone from printing checks without the proper 8 digit combination See the MICR Mode Commands section of this chapter for more information Source Technologies LLC 33 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 MICR Type designates the printer as a normal Source Technologies secure MICR printer The default is normal Hex Transfer and Density Control are normally reserved for ST Technical Support MICRpoint is a feature that allows for fine positioning of the MICR line by the operator The Audit Menu deals with the optional Audit Trail Report settings See chapter 7 for more information Entering MICR Mode To print MICR documents your Secure MICR Printer uses special alphanumeric text commands called MICR Mode commands There are two different commands which activate MICR mode printing amp STFPA
22. pnnter or make prmter connections ff you have a Plug and Play printer that connects A through a USB port or any other hot pluggable port such as IEEE 1394 infrared and so on you do not need to use this wizard Click Cancel to close the wizard and then plug the pnnter s cable into your computer or point the printer toward your computer s infrared port and tum the printer on Windows will automatically install the printer for you To continue click Next 6 Click Cancel if connecting through USB 7 Power on the printer and wait for the New Hardware Wizard to appear Found New Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Found New Hardware Wizard Windows will search for current and updated software by looking on your computer on the hardware installation CD or on the Windows Update Web site with your permission Read our privacy policy Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software Yes this time only OY v and every time connect a device Click Next to continue 8 Select No not this time then Next Source Technologies LLC 10 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 9 Select Install from a list or specific location Advanced Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for Source TechnologiesSource Technologies ST 9620 f d i If your hardware came with an installation CD 36 gt or floppy disk insert it now W
23. rientro retten Ferte rios k a gece ky PER rRE Ee geleed 50 Report Details e ee x e OP Re a E UP E e e xe e Fed Ee nd eMe Rd 50 Audit Trail Menu enr ER HERR dE 50 Audit Kolo ee EE 50 Audit RECOM SOMING EE 50 COVEN AY T UTE 50 SUM BICIG RE Aen Whee A a A a EA 50 Print Audit Report eee eg mre ny OLI TREE SERERE TEE PER UR EASY d Gg Yo do 51 LE eniin nnu inen uuu ngu EEEE ER EXEEEERUEREMEXERRXEREEEUESEMEREEREEUR 60 Source Technologies LLC ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix A E13B MICR Font Mapping eeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeeeenen nnne 61 Appendix B CMC7 MICR Font Mapping eene 61 Appendix C Secure Numeric Font Mapping eene eene 61 Appendix D ICR Secure Numeric Font Mapping ssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 61 Appendix E MICR Mode Command Summary eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeees 61 Appendix F Audit Report Command Summary cesses 61 Appendix G PJL Based MICR Commands eeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeee nn 61 PJE MICRJOB 61 Fonts and Secured Resources nennen enne nnne rre 61 PJL Unlock Sequence nennen nenne nne nnn eren nns nnrn enn nnr nnns 61 PJL Re Lock Geouence nennen nnne eren rn nennen nene nnnnn 61 PJL Re Lock Sequence With A New Password Value sssssssnneesseessrrnrrrrrreeneenea 61 PCL eneen EE 61 MICK Font N te au auti ER E a p a
24. send the time of print to the printer The data is recorded in the Audit Report but this field is not printed on the page Signals the end of a check and the end of Audit Report recording Turns Hex Transfer off 58 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Source Technologies LLC Audit Trail Reports 8 Figure 8 3 Audit Trail Report Audit Report page1 Records 1 through 10 of 10 indicates check did not print indicates gap in check numbers 200 00001000 123456789 12345678912345678 Vendor Systems 2 014 44 February 10 2001 200 00001001 562478923 12345678912345678 Classic Homes Construction 28 576 72 February 12 2001 200 00001002 285946731 12345678912345678 Computer Source Inc 55 600 00 February 14 2001 MSMITH 00001003 628499761 12345678912345678 Eastern Cleaning Supplies 876 00 February 15 2001 MSMITH 00001004 559873164 12345678912345678 Dillon Consulting Company 1 200 00 February 15 2001 MSMITH 00001006 578642315 12345678912345678 Klaussen Enterprises 449 466 800 00 February 15 2001 MSMITH 00001007 556791324 12345678912345678 Woods Paper Products 89 95 February 15 2001 PJONES 00001008 256988974 12345678912345678 Printers Quarterly 899 99 February 19 2001 Administrator 00001009 123654987 12345678912345678 XYZ Insurance 123 568 00 February 21 2001 T53DODER 00001010 155554897 12345678912345678 Carmine s Deli 2 354 00 February 22 2001 Q1 14 spaces SMD 40 spaces
25. the InstallShield Wizard for x86 PCL Emul Universal Driver v1 3 The InstallShield Wizard TM will help install x86 PCL Emul Universal Driver v1 3 on your computer To continue dick Next 2 Click Next gt Al x86 PCL Emul Universal Driver v1 3 InstallShield Wizard License Agreement Please read the following license agreement carefully LICENSOR SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT AND ADDITIONAL LICENSE TERMS FOR SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC SOFTWARE PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE SELECTING THE YES OR AGREE BUTTON ON THIS PAGE This Software License Agreement License Agreement is a legal agreement between you either an individual or a single entity and the developer of the printing device you purchased Licensor that to the extent your printing product or Software Program is not otherwise subject to a written software license agreement between you and Licensor or its suppliers governs your use of any Software Program installed on or provided by Licensor for use in connection with your printing product The term Software Program includes machine readable instructions audio visual content such as images and recordings and associated media printed materials and electronic documentation except any software owned by Sun Microsystems Inc which is subject Ido not accept the terms in the license agreement eme DS zs 3 Click accept the terms and then click Next gt Source Technologie
26. to manually program some commands through their host application It is used when programmers cannot place amp STFPASSWORDS at Source Technologies LLC 34 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 the beginning of their job Use the amp STH command if you experience page ejects while in amp STF mode When entering MICR mode with the amp STH command the printer will e Verify if the proper Front Panel Combination has been entered when enabled e Allow access to secure check printing resources such as MICR fonts and secure fonts which are stored in printer ROM It also allows access to protected signatures overlays logos and other important resources stored in password protected nonvolatile flash memory e Turn Hex Transfer ON Note The amp STH command can occur within a datastream after the page has started The amp STH command unlike the amp STF command can be issued anywhere on the page MICR Mode Commands Password Command amp STFPASSWORD or amp amp STHPASSWORD amp STF or amp STH Lead in sequence PASSWORD User defined password 8 characters case sensitive unprintable characters allowed Factory default is PASSWORD See also New Password Command Command terminator MICR Definition Command amp SMCPxxxx optional amp SMCP Lead in sequence XXXX MICR count the number of MICR lines to be printed during this print job 4 bytes in hex Command terminator Examp
27. used a PCL macro for the static data and background design This manual does not address macro design and programming but the variable text information including all the PJL and PCL commands used to print the example are on the page following the sample check For illustrative purposes there are some extra spaces in the text preceding the printable data The following paragraphs describe the command functions The commands are a minimal set chosen to produce the example Please consult Lexmark Technical publications for the complete descriptions of PJL and PCL printer commands PJL Unlock Sequence The first two lines of the variable text example are PJL commands that unlock the MICR font resources and enter PCL language processing The password used is PASSWORD the initial ship default These commands and all following commands are all case sensitive lt ESC gt is used to illustrate the ASCII Escape Character ASCII 27 hex 1B An actual data stream requires the Escape Character not lt ESC gt PCL Initial Set Up The next two commands set up some printer PCL variables These commands are normally early in the data stream We chose a minimal set lt ESC gt amp l2a1h6d1e64F sets the paper size to LETTER the input tray to TRAY 1 the lines per inch to 6 the top margin to 1 and the lines per page to 64 The next command lt ESC gt amp u600D is the Unit of Measure command set to 600 dots per inch mentioned in Section 7 This affects pro
28. 0 the printer is returned to its default font with the following command PCL command to return to default font Stores the date in the sixth position of the Audit Report Prints Secure Font command NOTE Tilde is command terminator PCL command to change the font to Courier 12 pitch Italic See print PCL Fonts on the Front Panel under the test menu for a printout with the call commands PCL command to return to the default font Stores the amount in the fourth position of the Audit Report Stores the payee Vendor Systems in the third position of the Audit Trail report PCL command to print font number 200 In this example font 200 is a signature previously loaded into 57 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 amp 1B 3 amp 961B amp f0S amp 1B p296x3184Y amp SMD amp 1BS amp F1S amp SQ710 33 45 AM amp STORES amp flash memory Here we call it and print it with an exclamation point PCL command to return to the default font PCL command to push store the current cursor position PCL command to move the cursor to 296X 3184Y At 300 dpi this is 97 inches across and 10 61 inches down We are precisely positioning the MICR line Print E 13B MICR command Prints the MICR line and stores the MICR line information in the second position in the Audit Report PCL command to pop return the cursor to the pushed position Here we
29. 2 8501 Any City NC 27514 531 DATE October 5 2005 PAY f 232221145 Two Thousand Fourteen and 14 100 wa DOLLARS AMOUNT 2014 44 TO THE Vendor Systems ORDER OF 927 Warehouse Road I Kansas City MO 59782 d NON NEGOTIABLE a WO23SGSE WL2ILGR7HOH OF 2344 23458 70 Source Technologies LLC 49 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 8 Audit Trail Reports The Audit Trail Report feature provides a report of the printer s MICR printing activity The printer must have flash memory to utilize this option Details of each flagged check record sent to the printer are provided since the last audit report was purged from flash memory Report Details A record check must be bounded by a start of record command and an end of record command Within each record fields to be included in the Audit Trail Report must be flagged The printer stores each record in flash memory After the check is successfully printed its record is designated as a successfully printed document in flash The report is built by printing each of these check records as a line item At the end of the report an exception report is generated which highlights any records received by the printer but not successfully printed Each record check has a maximum of seven fields with a total of 146 bytes Two of the flagged fields SQ1 and SQ7 are Audit Report fields only They are not printed on the MICR document Flagging other
30. 3 the name of the payee The name of the person or organization to whom the check was made payable SQ4 the amount of the check SQ5 not used in this report SQ6 the date the check was written SQ7 the time that the check was printed All of the above fields will be printed on the check with the exception of field 1 and field 7 10 33 44 AM 09 45 40 AM 01 00 26 AM 08 45 36 AM 08 46 50 AM 08 47 32 AM 08 49 45 AM 09 35 40 AM 10 30 45 AM 11 15 25 AM Source Technologies LLC 59 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Error Messages 9 9 Error Messages Your Secure MICR Printer has a set of front panel error messages unique to MICR applications These messages appear if there is a MICR related problem The printer may also print an error message on the page near where the error occurred In many cases you can receive more information about a displayed error by pressing Go to print the job which caused the error Then inspect the printed page for a more detailed error message Cartridge Related Errors Error Message Printed Description Action on Display Message 88 Cartridge is The amount of toner in Replace Cartridge low the cartridge is low Load MICR Before printing a MICR Replace the standard Toner font the printer checks toner cartridge with a for MICR toner If MICR toner cartridge Go regular toner is to proceed If MICR toner present the printer will is not available you must stop all pr
31. 6 156 800 922 8501 Any City NC 27514 es DATE October 5 2005 PAY Wa et op e ro MES POUR COUR 5 32222 44 Two Thousand Fourteen and 14 100 wa DOLLARS AMOUNT 2014 44 TO THE Vendor Systems ORDER OF 927 Warehouse Road Kansas City MO 59782 NON NEGOTIABLE s Eb UA d kbbm nr1235557805 OF 234423458 70 Source Technologies LLC 56 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 The commands in Figure 8 1 in order of appearance Audit Report fields shown in bold 8822896 amp STFPASSWORD amp SMCP0001 amp SAR amp STP10001 amp STP00200 amp 961B26 3358 amp SQ1200 200 amp 961B s1p16v0s3b4148T amp 1B 3 amp SQ6October 5 2005 amp SMF 2014 44 amp 961B s0p12h10v1s0b4099T amp 1B 3 amp SQ4 2104 44 amp SQ3Vendor Systems 8961B 200X Source Technologies LLC Hex transfer enable Password command MICR definition command with the count set to one Activates Audit Report recording Unlock flash resource number 10001 Unlock flash resource number 200 PCL sequence in hex which sets the page format and enables macro number 10001 Stores the vendor number 200 in the first position of the Audit Report Note that this field will not be sent to the page to be printed Here we send the field again so that it will print PCL sequence which changes the font to Univers 16 point After the check serial numbers prints 10
32. ES are supported simultaneously The keys messages themselves can be encrypted with either DES or AES for either DES or AES Only one DES and one AES key exists at any one point in time Old keys are not saved To change either a DES or an AES key requires the MICR Password Command The Secure MICR printer does not have any capability to encrypt a return or Bi directional message Source Technologies LLC 39 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 Decryption Commands Decryption requires printer processing overhead In our testing encrypted printer data steams near or below 100K bytes per page do not seem to affect printer speed in term of pages per minute or first page out timings Some testing done with print files from 500K to 1 Meg per page revealed up to a 3096 degradation in speed It is therefore recommended the encryption be reserved for the confidential portions of the data when large file sizes are anticipated Set DES Decryption Key Command amp STSETDESKEY lt 16 Hex Characters gt The command requires a MICR Password Command be sent prior to the Key Command The Key Command could itself be encrypted and then decrypted in the printer The command requires the key data be in a double byte hex format The 8 byte value must be converted to the 16 byte format The only values that can be contained in the 16 command bytes are 0 through 9 A through F Alpha key characters can be upper or lower case Command cha
33. Ei SourcsTechiologes Innovate Inspire Achieve Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Copyright Copyright Copyright 2009 by Source Technologies LLC All rights reserved No part of this document may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from Source Technologies LLC Published in the United States of America by Source Technologies LLC 2910 Whitehall Park Drive Charlotte NC 28273 Author Source Technologies LLC Notice This manual serves as a reference for a Source Technologies Secure MICR Printer This manual should be used as a reference for learning more about MICR technology and developing MICR printing applications This guide was produced to assist IS Technicians and Engineers in the integration of Source Technologies programmed printers with their custom MICR applications The guide also contains information on MICR related error messages that post to the operator panel To the best of our knowledge the information in this publication is accurate however neither Source Technologies LLC nor its dealers or affiliates assume any responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of or consequences arising from such information Changes typos and technical inaccuracies will be corrected in subsequent publications This publication is subjec
34. FALSE formfeed HEX 0C The code will always be 40020 only the display line will change to indicate the specific error Source Technologies LLC 32 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 Resource Storage Check related resources such as form overlays and signatures are stored in your printer with unique identification numbers ID numbers must be less than 32767 Number 5001 is reserved for the Audit Trail overlay Your Secure MICR Printer has two areas where you may store these resources FLASH and RAM Memory Flash Memory is an optional feature It is user managed and its resources can be designated as secure or unsecure Secure resources are loaded to flash with the STL command and have ID numbers greater than or equal to 10000 They can only be accessed by using the STP command when the printer is in MICR mode Unsecure resources do not require a password and should be assigned an ID number less than 10000 Resources stored in flash memory are not deleted when the printer is powered off Flash memory is required for all Audit Trail features Storing resources in RAM is also an option Resources in RAM are deleted when the printer is powered off or reset For this reason check related resources may need to be loaded frequently Resources stored in RAM cannot be password protected We recommend storing all check related resources in secured flash memory MICR Menu Your Secure MICR Printer contains a front
35. Fonts tab Select Update List 2 Select the upper Browse button Update Fert Lis Locate the directory that contains Font Source y y Font Data Path E 96XXfont pcm file and select ECTS EYE AA Saach Ph Font Metric Path MAMICR PRINTER REF Browse a 3 Select the Search Path button Available Fonts or Collections Fonts in Collections ST 98 Font Collection ST 9X Font Collection 4 Select ST 96XX Font Collection ICR Secus Tepe Then select the Add to driver button MICR CMC 8 pt MICR E13B 8 pt Bd MicroPrint 1 pt ecciipe 2C et Driver Contents 5 Select the Done ST 96x Font Collection Remove 6 When you have made all of the desired changes choose OK to save your settings Configure another driver to print without MICR toner If you plan to use your printer for normal office printing without MICR toner or fonts you must add a second instance of the printer driver Switching between MICR and non MICR modes alters settings which are stored in the printers NVRAM It is recommended not to switch between the modes more than a few times per day to avoid wearing out the NVRAM part 1 Inthe Printers folder select Add a Printer 2 Select the Local printer option then select Next gt Add Printer Wizard Local or Network Printer The wizard needs to know which type of printer to set up Select the option that describes the pnnter you want to use Local printer attached to this computer To set u
36. ICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 6 MICR Features Source Technologies secure MICR printers are designed to allow both general office document printing and secure MICR document printing You may print a variety of conventional jobs with regular Lexmark toner using all of the printer features available such as network printer utilities Source Technologies printers come standard with HP PCL5 PCL6 and PostScript Level 2 emulations Source Technologies has designed features to enhance these printers with MICR mode specific operation that allows you to securely print high quality negotiable documents MICR Mode Your Secure MICR Printer has two operational states normal and MICR mode When the printer is in normal printing mode your MICR resources cannot be accessed Once the printer enters MICR mode your secure resources become available and the printer begins the process of confirming readiness to print a negotiable document There are two conditions which must be met before MICR mode is activated If the front panel combination lock feature is activated the correct eight digit combination must be entered from the front panel The correct password command must be received by the printer from the software application prior to printing any MICR documents MICR Fonts The E 13B and CMC7 MICR fonts are resident in your printer Examples of these fonts are in the Appendix of this manual They can only be accessed after MICR mode is
37. O 123456 Source Technologies Inc 2910 Whitehall Park Drive Charlotte NC 28273 FIrRSEnCS NUMBER XXXXXXXXX xx xx xxxx x xxx xx SK XXX XX TOTALS w Ss Source Technologias LLC 2910 Whitehall Park Drive Check No 123456 gt Charlotte NC 28273 800 922 8501 NON NEGOTIABLE pate xe Xx XXxx PAY xxxxx Thousand xxxxx Hundred xxxxx Dollars and xx 100 1 234 56 TO THE Your Company ORDER OF 123 Main street NON NEGOTIABLE Yourcity ST 12345 6789 Ls Dice3aNSb We2ILSE7HON OLZILAZILWSE TOM Source Technologies LLC 76 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix H PJL and PCL commands used to print the sample check lt ESC gt 12345X PJL LDECLARE LRESOURCE flash LRWLOCK PASSWORD PJL ENTER LANGUAGE PCL lt ESC gt amp l2a1h6d1e64F lt ESC gt amp u600D lt ESC gt 8 amp f100y3X lt ESC gt s4099t0b10H lt ESC gt p300x600Y XXXXXXXXX XX XX XXXX x xxx xx 3 X XXX XX lt ESC gt p300x2775Y XXXXXXXXX XX XX XXXX x xxx xx 3 x XXX XX lt ESC gt p3250x75Y lt ESC gt s4099t3b8H 123456 lt ESC gt p3250x2200Y 123456 lt ESC gt p4250x4450Y 123456 lt ESC gt p3650x4775Y xx xx xxxx lt ESC gt p400x5225Y lt ESC gt s4099t0b15H xxxxx Thousand xxxxx Hundred xxxxx Dollars and xx 100 Cents lt ESC gt p600x5600Y lt ESC gt s10H Your Company lt ESC gt p600x5700Y 123 Main Street lt ESC gt p600x5800Y Yourcity ST 12345 6789 lt ESC gt p900x6325Y lt ESC gt 30802X
38. Q3 40 spaces Q4 16 spaces SQ5 8 spaces SQ6 19spaces Q7 12 spaces Note Each of the seven fields in the Audit Report holds a maximum number of characters Those numbers are represented in BOLD above with their corresponding fields Field 1 and Field 7 will not print on the check This Audit Report is just one example of a report format Any of the seven fields can be manipulated to show any information the user feels is appropriate For example the check amount could be in field 3 rather than field 4 or field 5 could contain items such as taxes drawn on the check check numbers year to date accumulations etc Each line is a record of a check that was printed The top of every Audit Trail Report shows how many pages make up the report as well as the number of records that will print The Audit Report can be printed in two ways a sorted report or an unsorted report A sorted report sorts all checks numerically by the first 20 characters in the MICR line field and prints asterisks beside checks printed out of sequence Sorting can be done via the front panel or by the commands amp SPRINTS or amp SPURGESS An unsorted report lists checks in the order they were printed An asterisk at the beginning of a line states that the check number did not print In this example SQ1 the authorized user who accessed the Audit Trail Report SMD displays the client s check number the bank institution s routing number and account number SQ
39. R clear band which is 5 8 of an inch above the bottom of the check Check Serial Number The check serial number is generally printed in the upper right quadrant of the check Although the check number is not required for the check to be negotiable the account holder and financial institution use these numbers to reconcile statements and execute stop payments The check serial number should also appear a second time in the MICR line and these numbers should match The number of digits in the check serial number is controlled by the financial institution and the MICR line format Consult your banking institution for their requirements Fractional Routing Number The fractional routing number should be printed in a fractional format in the upper right quadrant of the check This number is assigned to identify the Federal Source Technologies LLC 24 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Check Design 3 Reserve District and drawee institution Consult with your bank for the proper routing number and format for each of your accounts MICR Line Accurate high speed processing of your checks by financial institutions is enabled by the accuracy and integrity of the data in the MICR line Refer to figure 3 1 for the location of the following MICR line fields The MICR line is read from right to left with position one being the right most position proceeding to position sixty five on the left The MICR line must be printed at exactly eig
40. SSWORD and amp amp STHPASSWORD amp STF is the default command and is recommended for most applications To use the amp STF command it must be entered at the beginning of the job datastream The amp STH command can be entered anywhere prior to accessing secured resources The amp STH command is not as powerful as the amp 96STF command because it does not set as many parameters for MICR printing Both commands and descriptions are as follows amp STF Command When entering MICR mode with the amp STF mode the printer will e Check to see if the proper Front Panel Combination has been entered when enabled e Allow access to secure check printing resources such as MICR fonts and secure fonts stored in printer ROM e Allow access to protected signatures overlays logos and other important resources stored in password protected nonvolatile flash memory Display MICR Mode Active on the printer s front panel Disable the printer s front panel menu system Set printer resolution to 600 dpi for printing MICR fonts Disable Jam Recovery Set the copies parameter to 1 Sets Toner Low Alarm Turn Hex Transfer ON Note The amp STF command must be entered at the beginning of the print job before any other print data is received amp STH Command The amp STH command does not set up the printer for check printing activity as completely as the amp STF command mode This alternate MICR mode command forces the user
41. THREE PERIOD ZERO ZERO Note The secure fonts in the example are magnified for purposes of clarity Source Technologies LLC 66 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix D ICR Secure Numeric Font Mapping Command Description Zero One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Asterisk Comma Period Dollar Sign amp SMIXXXXXX Alpha Numeric Character Source Technologies LLC Hex Value 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 2A 2C 2E 23 67 Appendix D Secure Font Character OCONQOUEPWN ES o ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix E Appendix E MICR Mode Command Summary Description Command Structure Function Password amp STFPASSWORD Must be sent to enable amp STHPASSWORD MICR Mode MICR Definition amp SMCPxxxx MICR Line Count command Sets new password Must Set New Password amp 96S TExoooxx be preceded by current password Activate Set Front Panel amp 96STS oooooocxx ie on and sels front C Combination Lock must be ombination 8 integers Print MICR E13B Font amp SMDddd ddd Prints E13 B MICR font at the current print position Please refer to Appendix A Print MICR CMC7 amp SM7ddd ddd Prints CMC 7 MICR font at the current print position Please refer to Appendix B Print Secure Numeric Font amp SMFddd ddd Prints th
42. ad enter 36 Select the center key to save the value The values are stored in internal FLASH memory in the printer and will remain the same until changed by the operator Power ON OFF cycles do not reset the values Assuming the measurements are correct when test or production check amp Giee pritaed 6 the MICR Line should now be at the new location on the page SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES 800 922 8501 j EEE www sourcetech com ffe k MICR TEMPLATE If you wish to utilize the MICRpoint feature of your printer please call Sales Support at 1 800 922 8501 and have your printer serial number readily available to receive the MICR Positioning Gauge shown above The Positioning Gauge will be sent to you free of charge Source Technologies LLC 43 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide IBM Host Programming Features and Examples 7 7 IBM Host Programming Features and Examples Hex Transfer The Hex Transfer feature allows the user to send PCL escape sequence printer commands to the printer with simple text strings You may send any valid command or string of commands with no limit on the length or complexity Form macros signatures or simple commands may be passed through any platform to the printer since they are simple text The printer will convert them back to ESC escape sequences when they arrive at the printer Hex Transfer is automatically enabled while in MICR Mode To enable it for all applications use the following comman
43. ally support either long or short paper grain Overall performance in the bank s reader sorters is best when the resultant grain direction is left to right when viewing the check Perforations All perforations in the stock should be Laser Cut or Micro Perfs 20 or more cuts per inch Larger perforations can produce excessive paper chaff and result in damage to the toner cartridge Perforations should be ironed by the paper supplier to reduce nesting and potential double feeding Moisture The paper moisture content should be between 4 7 and 5 596 Storage conditions have much to do with the final moisture content of most papers Store your check stock in a cool dry environmentally stable and secure area Protective wrappings should be removed just prior to use Source Technologies LLC 28 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Security Issues 5 5 Security Issues Printing negotiable documents from blank paper on desktop MICR laser printers makes security a top priority for any company embarking on a desktop check printing project Combating fraud is a moving target As soon as a new weapon is developed malicious forces are at work to devise workarounds to it Good security programs integrate hardware software your employees processes and your financial institution into a secure check production system The ultimate liability for fraudulent documents rests with the banks and their customers and there can be many vulnerable po
44. apture equipment and is also a fraud deterrent A fixed pitch courier font or if available OCR B are also acceptable fonts to print the convenience amount Note The Source Technologies Secure Numeric Font see Appendix B should not be used in the convenience amount since it is not a machine readable font Amount in Words The amount in words sometimes called the legal amount is normally located either above or below and to the left of the convenience amount The area for the amount in words should be entirely filled to make alterations difficult The amount should start at the far left of the line with the words placed immediately adjacent to each other The cents need not be written out They may be expressed as a fraction 60 100 and should be placed immediately to the right of the dollar amount and followed by a line or other space filler to inhibit alteration Example One hundred forty four and 62 100 DOLLARS Source Technologies LLC 23 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Check Design 3 Given the available area on the document you may need to use a smaller font when printing larger value amounts Payee Area The payee is a necessary data element for a negotiable document The payee area is generally to the left side of the document either above or below the amount in words It is often preceded by the words Pay to the Order Of The payee data should not enter the MICR clear band which exten
45. are Check the Command amp STL STY syntax for errors Check the command amp STL STS STP for syntax numbering errors Check the software to ensure that the password is sent before any secure commands Purge the audit data then resend theg Messsagesahd Print the menus to ensure that Flash is installed Print a directory of Flash to ensure that is it not write protected or full If error occurs on STP command check to confirm that the resource is stored in Flash ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix A Appendix A E13B MICR Font Mapping Command amp SMDddd ddd MICR Font Description Alpha Numeric Hex Values Character Values r Amount Symbol Aal 4161 2F Le Transit Symb ol T EB b 54 74 42 B2 3A a On Us Symb ol Wirt ec 4F 6F 43 63 3B Dash Symbol Ves 56 76 4464 2D 3D Zero D 30 i One 1 81 d Two 2 32 4 Three 3 33 L Four 4 34 G Five 5 35 B Six B 36 7 Seven 7 37 B Eight T 38 q Nine g 39 Example amp SMD 00001234 T01234567T3210987654321 will print ga OOOO beth qxz 0LbPi5 5674 LtHB PES ee Select only one alphanumeric character to call the font Source Technologies LLC 61 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix B Appendix B CMC7 MICR Font Mapping Command amp SM7ddd ddd Description Alpha Numeric Characters Zero 0 One 1 Two 2 Three 3 Four 4 Five 5 Six 6 Seven 7 Eight 8 Nine 9 Colon Semi Colon Less Than lt
46. arks are valuable but more costly Laid Lines Background lines that make cut and paste alteration difficult These are normally on the back of the check Fuse Enhancing Additive Coatings or additives to the paper that improve the bonding of toner to the paper This helps prevent altering of critical data such as the amount or payee name Chemical Additives If an ink eradicator bleach acetone etc is applied to the document the eradicator creates a permanent stain Numbered Check Stock Sequential numbering printed in dye that penetrates to the reverse side of the check can be used to verify authenticity This also provides for inventory control of blank check stock This number Source Technologies LLC 29 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Security Issues 5 should not be linked or be equal to the check serial number due to the potential of double feeding in laser printers Note These features serve as a general guide for check security You should not consider these features as an all inclusive list We recommend consulting with your paper supplier for any additional comments or suggestions 4 Firms accepting checks should be aware of damaged MICR lines Intentionally damaging the MICR line can increase the time necessary to process an item giving the forger enough time to leave town Also be sensitive to discoloration this could be an indication of alteration 5 Safeguard check stock paper and limit a
47. ault character positioning is at 300 DPI and 8 into 300 is 37 5 pixels The printer will either round down to 37 or up to 38 pixels causing characters to creep To resolve this there are multiple options 1 If you are using a printer driver that is set to 600 DPI the printer data stream should include a Unit of Measure PCL command set to 600 The command is lt ESC gt amp u600D 2 If the application controls the printer data stream add the Unit of Measure command early in the data stream The command also affects X amp Y positioning commands Add lt ESC gt amp u600D 3 After calling the E 13B MICR font issue a HMI Horizontal Motion Index command set to 8 characters per inch The command must be included with every E 13B MICR font call using either the Selection String or ID call The command string is Source Technologies LLC 72 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix G lt ESC gt 100 lt ESC gt sOp8h8v0s7b360T lt ESC gt amp k15H font data The Selection String lt ESC gt 30802X lt ESC gt amp k15H font data The ID Call See Font Mapping Appendix pages for specific character set data for each font PJL Info MICR Command The ST Secure MICR Printer supports an optional custom bi directional PJL Inquiry Command The command provides printer information and cartridge information for network management The command format is PJL INFO MICR The command should be sent with UEL Universal Exit Language commands
48. ccess only to necessary employees 6 When generating final negotiable items e The document always includes the amount value in words e The document should not include information that limits the value range i e Not valid over 500 This only guides the fraudulent attempt Use your application software to detect out of range items e Al levels of hardware and software password protection should be utilized 7 Understand and approve the security procedures of your check stock suppliers to safeguard stock in their custody 8 Use Positive Pay check services from your financial institution You should provide the check number check date dollar amounts and sometimes the payee name to your bank when checks are issued The bank will match these values and alert you to mismatches before clearing the check to your account Financial institutions should encourage full participation of corporate clients 9 Move methods of fraud detection to the item s point of entry into the clearing system For example low cost readers can detect low magnetic strength in the MICR line which is a good indication of attempts to copy an original 10 Review and document your internal negotiable document printing procedures Investigate employee backgrounds before assigning security authority Split the responsibilities For example an accounts payable production security officer should not also balance the account Source Technologies LLC 30 ST9650 Secure M
49. consistency with older printers in the system Swapping ON causes any lt esc gt amp l4H to be replaced with 5H and vice versa DES and AES Decryption Data Encryption Standard DES and the Advanced Encryption Standard AES are both supported in the Source Technologies secure MICR printers The minimum Code Level support for AES is 8 5j Levels 8 5i and lower only support DES DES originated at IBM in 1977 and was adopted by the U S Department of Defense The controlling standards for DES are ANSI X3 92 and X3 106 and in the Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS 46 3 standard An alternative to DES called Triple DES is not supported in our Secure MICR printers AES is documented in a FIPS standard FIPS 197 dated 11 26 2001 Three key sizes are documented in the standard 128 bit 192 bit amp 256 bit We currently only support the most commonly used 128 bit key size The algorithm selected for AES is Rijndael Developed in Belgium an English pronunciation alternative is Rain Doll In addition to U S Government implementations it is anticipated that AES will be adopted by businesses organizations institutions and individuals outside of government and outside of the United States as was the case for DES We only support decryption for DES and AES Encrypted printer data streams can be decrypted using the key stored some time prior to the message Keys for both DES and AES are stored separately so that both AES and D
50. ds Turning Hex Transfer On To enable Hex Transfer send the following command amp amp amp 76 Once Hex Transfer is enabled the character sequence amp will act as a trigger sequence Any data following these trigger characters will not be printed and will be treated as Hex Transfer data until the Hex Transfer ending character is encountered Turning Hex Transfer Off To turn Hex Transfer off send the following command amp amp This command will clear the trigger sequence and allow the amp characters to print This clear command may be sent at any time to assure that Hex Transfer is disabled When MICR Mode is entered Hex Transfer will automatically be turned on and when MICR Mode is exited Hex Transfer will be turned off unless it has previously been activated outside of MICR Mode with the amp amp amp string Source Technologies LLC 44 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide IBM Host Programming Features and Examples 7 Hex Transfer Examples amp amp amp 76 This command enables Hex Transfer On amp 1B 26 6C 34 48 Or amp 1B amp 4H Sends the PCL Esc sequence lt Esc gt amp l4H which is a paper source command identifying the tray from which the paper will be pulled amp 1B 45 Or amp 1B E This command is a printer reset PCL command which consists of the Esc character and printable E character It may be sent by simply putting the Esc c
51. ds 5 8 of an inch above the bottom of the check Some financial institutions have established specific print requirements for the Payee Name and optional address Consult your bank for details on their print requirements Signature Area A signature is a required data element for a negotiable document The signature or signatures authorize the bank to honor the check therefore it must match the bank s records The signature area should be beneath the convenience amount area but the signatures should not enter the convenience amount area nor the MICR clear band This is especially true if you print the signature with MICR toner Drawee Institution Name The name of the institution where the maker s account is located is referred to as the drawee institution The bank s name city and state are required Account Title The account title is normally printed in the upper left corner of the check It includes the name of the account holder and other information such as addresses telephone numbers and logos The data in the title should be legible and sufficiently complete so that if the MICR data account number is destroyed the drawee institution can refer to the account title in order to trace the account number Memo Line This line is located in the lower left quadrant of the check and is not required Data printed here does not contain any legal significance Printing in this area with magnetic toner should not extend downward into the MIC
52. e Character Invalid decode mode specified Macro ID greater than 32767 limit Macro size exceeds available space Source Technologies LLC Description There was an internal error while trying to access flash for audit trail This error message indicates that the printer s flash memory is full The audit trail cannot accept more jobs until more space is available in flash A parameter ina command was not the correct length Invalid hex digit or length of decryption key An error was detected in the User Programmable Escape Character Selection Command The software tried to specify a NULL or an ampersand as the first Escape Character The Load Flash Resource Command contained an invalid character specifying the format of the file Must be either a D or S The resource number in the Load Flash Resource Command amp STL was over the 32767 limit Flash resource file size specified in the Load Flash Resource Command is too large for the available space remaining in the flash module Action Check that Flash is installed and not full Press Go then purge the audit trail Then either defragment or format flash memory Utilities Menu Check the Command amp STP STS for syntax numbering errors Check the syntax of SETAESKEY or SETDESKEY command Check the Command amp STY for errors Check the Command amp STL for syntax errors Check the Load Flash Resource C
53. e Secure Numeric font at the current print position Note The tilde is the command terminator see Appendix C Print ICR Secure Numeric Font amp YSMIXXXXXX Prints the ICR Secure Numeric Font at the current print position Refer to Appendix D Print in MicroPrint amp SMMxxxxxx Prints data in MicroPrint font Load Flash Resource amp STLxxxxxyyyyyyzddd dd Loads a Flash Resource file into password protected Flash memory Formats Flash memory Format Flash Memory amp SFF Caution All Flash content will be lost Makes Flash Resource Flash Resource Unlock amp STPXXXXX Command available to be called must be 5 integers A Locks Tray 1 2 or 3 for Tray Lock Command amp ASTTLE MICR Printing Unlock Tray Command amp ASTTUH Locks Tray 1 2 or 3 amp STTSON Turns tray swapping ON Tray Swapping Commands amp STTSOFFS Turns tray swapping OFF Quit MICR MODE amp STQS Terminates MICR Mode Command Source Technologies LLC 68 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix F Appendix F Audit Report Command Summary Description Start Audit Record Audit Report Field One Print MICR E13B Font Audit Report Field Three Print the Check Amount Audit Report Field Five Audit Report Field Six Audit Report Field Seven Print Audit Report End Audit Record Print and Purge Format Flash Memory End MICR Mode Source Technologi
54. eric Font amp SMFddd ddd amp SMF Lead in sequence ddd ddd Data to be printed in this font i Command terminator The dollar sign is not a command terminator for this command For both security fonts the tilde hex 7E is the command terminator since the dollar sign is a valid character Print ICR Secure Numeric Font amp SMIxxxxxx amp SMI Lead in sequence XXXXXXXX Data variables to be printed in this font Command terminator Print MicroPrint Line amp SMMxxxxxxxxx amp SMM Lead in sequence XXXXXX Data to be printed in this font MP designator optional Command terminator If the exclamation point is used the MP designate will print just above and to the right of the last character This is optional and is typically used to notify the check recipient of the presence of MicroPrinting Only 0 9 A Z upper and lower case print Special characters and spaces will disappear Source Technologies LLC 37 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 Load Flash Resource amp STLxxxxxyyyyyyzdd dd amp STL Lead in sequence XXXXX Resource number in decimal must be 5 digits yyyyyy Byte count of resource file in Hex must be 6 positions Zz Format of the resource file S Single byte binary format D Double byte text format dd dd Flash resource file e g forms overlay signatures etc Resource number values may be between 00001 to 32767 Values of 10000 and above are passwo
55. es LLC Command amp SAR amp SQ1 d amp 96SMD d amp SQ3d amp SQ4d d amp SQ5d d amp SQE6d d amp SQTd d amp SPRINTS amp STORES amp SPURGE amp YSFFS amp VSTQAS Structure Function Activates Audit Trail and begins PJL job Records first field on the Audit Report does not print Print and records MICR line Records third field on the Audit Report Records fourth field of the Audit Report and prints the check amount Records fifth field of Audit Report Records sixth field of Audit Report Records seventh field of Audit Report does not print Prints Audit Report Ends Audit Record and PJL Job Prints and purges the Audit Report Caution All previous Audit Report information will be lost Formats flash memory An error will occur if Audit Report has not been purged Ends MICR Mode ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix G Appendix G PJL Based MICR Commands In addition to supporting the Text Based MICR Command Set described in Sections 6 and 7 this Secure MICR printer also supports the PJL based MICR Commands used on our slower speed models The MICR code functions emulate the presence of FLASH memory for the 5 secured font resources The FLASH Memory option is not required for the five fonts If you require the capability to store custom signature fonts logo fonts or overlay macros in Secure FLASH Memory the FLASH memory option is required
56. haracter in Hex Note Hex Transfer can now be set ON or OFF via the MICR Menu Please review Section 6 MICR Menu for more information Source Technologies LLC 45 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide IBM Host Programming Features and Examples 7 Figure 7 1 MICR Mode Command Example The following example shows the MICR Mode commands and Hex Transfer commands in use This datastream would print the check on the following page assuming the check macro and the signature are loaded as flash resources A S MC P000 A ST P200006 0733 168 3 2 6 72E 3330423 1 3 0 E3030481B2666 5 8 2 1 3 1000 200 Vendor Systems October 5 2005 99999 Oct105 1000 00 1234567 Oct 205 200 00 136784 Oct305 800 00 555555 Oct 305 55 55 2055 55 2014 44 1000 200 Vendor Systems October 5 2005 99999 Oct 1 05 1000 00 1234567 Oct2 05 200 00 136784 Oct305 800 00 555555 Oct305 55 55 2055 55 2014 44 amp 1B s1p16v0s3b4148T 1000 amp 1B 3 October 5 2005 amp SMF 2014 44 amp 961B s0p12h1s0b4099T zz Two Thousand Fourteen and 44 100 DOLLARS amp 1B 3 2014 44 Vendor Systems 927 Warehouse Road Kansas City MO 59782 amp 961B 20000X amp 1BS 3 amp 961B amp f0S amp 961B p296x3184Y amp SMD 00001000 123456789 1234567890123 amp 1BS8 amp F1S Source Technologies LLC 46 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide IBM Host Programming Features and Examples 7 The comma
57. hat do you want the wizard to do install the softw 10 Click Next gt 11 Click Don t search I will choose the driver to install Found New Hardware Wizard Please choose your search and installation options a Sy Search forthe best driver in these locations Use the check boxes below ta limit or expand the default search which includes local paths and removable media The best driver found will be installed Choose this option to select the device dnver from a list Windows does not guarantee that the driver you choose will be the best match for your hardware 12 Click Next 13 Scroll down the list and select Printers Source Technologies LLC 11 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Found New Hardware Wizard Select a hardware type and then click Next Common hardware types Kit Portable Devices MN Ports COM amp LPT eg 8f Processors E9 Programming cables Sy SBP2 IEEE 1394 Devices QS SCS and RAID controllers A Secure Digital host controllers SB Got eso readers 14 Click Next gt Found New Hardware Wizard Add Printer Wizard Select the manufacturer and model of your printer f your printer came with an installation disk click Have Disk ff your printer is not listed consult your printer documentation for a compatible printer S AGFA AccuSet v52 3 Alps f AGFA AcouSet SF v52 3 Apollo E A Able Sf AGFA AccuSet 800
58. ht characters per inch Auxiliary On Us Field Positions 65 to 45 This field usually contains the check serial number for commercial size checks and possibly account control information It is bounded by On Us symbols IB It is not included on personal small size checks External Processing Code EPC Field Position 44 This one digit field is position 44 of the MICR line This field is usually left blank The use of this field is reserved and is controlled by the ASC X9AB Standards Committee Routing Field Positions 43 to 33 The routing field is bounded by Transit symbols Iz in positions 43 and 33 It contains fixed format information about the drawee institution Consult with your bank for the specific data field to be placed here for each of your accounts On Us Field Positions 32 to 14 The On Us field contains the makers account number The structure and content of this field is left to the drawee bank On personal checks this field also contains the check serial numbers The On Us field may not consist of more than 19 characters An On Us symbol I must appear immediately to the right of the account number Blank Field Position 13 Position 13 is always left blank Amount Field Positions 1 to 12 The amount field is the right most field in the MICR line It remains blank until itis printed by the bank of first deposit When the check enters the banking system the bank of first deposit encodes this field from data i
59. inting and power off your printer and display this message restart the print job ata later time when MICR toner is available Programming Related Errors Error Message Printed on Display Message Can t Create There was insufficient Turn printer off and back Node memory to track on then retry If the another audit job problem recurs call Tech Support Can t Purge This error indicates that Press Go Enter MICR password not MICR mode has not mode then re attempt the enabled been enabled purge Can t Sort This error indicates the Press Go The printer Insufficient printer does not have may need to be upgraded Memory sufficient memory to with more RAM memory sort the Audit Report to sort otherwise an unsorted Audit Report may be printed Command Decode error A syntax error was Check your software for a Decode Error amp Sx where detected in a MICR syntax error in the MICR x is the command command that was being incorrect used when the error character occurred Description Action Source Technologies LLC 60 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Error Message on Display File System Error Can t Open File Flash Full Purge and Format Integer string incorrect length Invalid AES DES key Invalid Convert to Escape Character Macro Definition Error Macro Definition Error Macro Definition Error Printed Message Integer string incorrect length Invalid Convert to Escap
60. ints throughout the overall system Customers must have systems designed and documented to show Ordinary Care and Good Faith Effort is in place to avoid liability In the past financial institutions generally credited corporations when fraud was discovered Today regulations attempt to define who may have been negligent in the transaction and put the liability on that party or parties If a fraudulent occurrence can be traced to a corporation s lack of security procedures or the design of their negotiable documents the regulations will protect the banks or at best case the loss will be shared The following internal and external security measures will help minimize your risk of check fraud 1 Stay abreast of current check fraud methods and the latest in fraud detection Many financial institutions offer seminars to educate corporate clients 2 Financial institutions should train tellers to look at the check not the person presenting the check The check not the person is the item that must be verified 3 Incorporate security features into your base check stock and utilize printed security features that address both alteration and counterfeiting of original items We have found the following check stock security features to be of merit Artificial Watermarks White on white printing generally on the back reveals words or patterns when held at an angle You should state on the front of the check that this feature is present True waterm
61. le amp SMCP0010 Prints 16 Hex 10 MICR lines before disabling MICR mode This command defines how many MICR lines may print in the current job When the count decrements to zero MICR mode is terminated Set New Password Command amp STEXxxxxxxx amp STE Lead in sequence XXXXXXXX New password must be 8 characters either printable or non printable Dollar sign is an invalid password character MICR Features 6 Command terminator In order to set a new password the current password must first be sent Source Technologies LLC 35 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Caution Errors made in sending the new password command could lead to setting it to an unknown value If the Password is unknown the printer must be returned to Source Technologies to be reset to PASSWORD Activate Set Front Panel Combination Lock amp STSxxxxxxxx optional amp STS Lead in sequence XXXXXXXX Eight digit sequence valid characters 0 9 Command terminator Sets and activates the front panel MICR combination lock If this feature is activated MICR mode cannot be entered until the front panel combination is entered correctly All MICR features will be inaccessible until this combination is entered Sending an amp STS command and eight zeros deactivates the security lock Caution If the front panel combination is set and then forgotten the printer must be returned to Source Technologies for the combination to be deactivated P
62. long beeps Emits a custom beep amp STBEEPnffdddd e nn two digit number of beeps 0 63 e ff two digit frequency 0 63 e dddd four digit duration 0 1023 MICR Features 6 MICRpoint Feature Fine positioning of the MICR Line characters is accomplished using the MICRpoint feature The feature only works with the SMD amp SM7 MICR Print Commands using the printer s resident MICR fonts The exact location of the entire MICR Line can be moved left or right up or down by the printer operator through the printer s front panel Only the MICR Line is moved All other printed information is not affected This allows the operator using a MICR Positioning Gauge and the MICRpoint feature to precisely locate the MICR characters on the specific printer in use to address slight print location variances Each value entered by the operator is equal to 1 10th of a Point a decipoint 720 Decipoints 1 inch The maximum value that can be entered is 99 Decipoints allowing the entire MICR Line to move up or down left or right a maximum of 0 1375 inches from the print data stream s intended location The figure below shows proper MICR character placement using a MICR Positioning Gauge The best location has the right side of the characters at or near the right edge of the location boxes An operator may have to choose a compromise location that best addresses the entire line To Enter MICRpoint values enter the MICR Menu through the
63. lt ESC gt amp k15H 001234560 T123456780T 012341234D56700 lt ESC gt p1500x5100Y lt ESC gt 30043X 1 234 56 lt ESC gt p3650x5400Y lt ESC gt 30066X 1 234 56 0C Form Feed lt ESC gt 12345X PJL LDELETEPASSWORD LRESOURCE flash lt ESC gt 12345X Source Technologies LLC TT ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide
64. ly Do you want to continue installing this driver 20 Once the files have copied se ect Finish to close the Wizard Source Technologies LLC 13 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Configure the Driver to enable MICR Mode To unlock the secure font resources located in the printer the driver must be configured to send down a separator page before each print job The separator page contains the necessary commands to unlock the resources 1 Click Start then select the Printer and Faxes folder 2 Locate the printer you just installed and right click the icon Then select Properties 3 From the General tab type a descriptive name for the printer such as ST9620 MICR Patiess Fi tege hhe ED Upps Misa a miod GI dps Pod fwwem P 4 Click the Advanced tab Faras tang Pots Aray pite Ael Dr Dav Zeg Tedzrioge Hen ves gt pcetyem cocamart pre kriss pates ner Jet eere ete laa papri tren ier part ng yet ed Pes pert Hn iom 351 wma hui s o E Pw ize dcm trot keep piod gen matt abaa perpins Preary Dejad Puy Parsa 5 Click the Separator Page button Then select Browse and locate the MICR_on sep file in the Windows system32 folder Source Technologies LLC 14 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Configure the Driver to Recognize the Printer Secure Fonts 1 Select the
65. n the convenience amount field It will be bounded by Amount symbols ul Source Technologies LLC 25 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Check Design 3 Figure 3 1 Sample Check SAMPLE CHECK FOR MICR SPECIFICATION CHECK First National Bank A 0123456789 ADDRES CITY STATE ziP B Mx Sc gt NS DOLLARS C First Fecers Bank of America Yourtown Your State USA 22222 0002 z fedemet fra Stm anii v p3 GO Sc PLI ERE TTT TT a oe ET This check not scaled fo size A Serial Number Must be in the upper right corner and match the serial number in the MICR line see D for further explanation B Fractional Routing Transit Number Should be in the upper right corner and must match the routing transit number in the MICR line with the exception of the state prefix number ex 66 NC 67 SC 64 GA etc and the preceding zeros C Bank Name State City The bank logo is optional Name of bank city and state where the account will be assigned opened are required fields D Aux On Us 46 55 This is a required field if the customer desires services offered by the bank which require a serial number The serial number format is controlled by the payer s bank A amp D should match E Routing Number 34 42 Designates the Federal Reserve district and financial institution Each city state or region that the bank serves has a unique ins
66. nds in Figure 7 1 in order of appearance amp STFPASSWORDS amp SMCPO0001 amp STP10001 amp STP20000 amp 961B26 3358 amp 961B s1p16v0s3b4148T amp 1B 3 amp SMF 2014 44 amp 961B s0p12h1s0b4099T amp 1B 3 amp 1B 20000X amp 1B 3 amp 1BS amp FfOS amp 1B p296x3184Y amp SMD amp 1BS amp F1S Source Technologies LLC Password Command MICR Definition Command with the count set to one Unlock Flash Resource number 10001 Unlock Flash Resource number 20000 PCL sequence in hex which sets the page format and enables macro number 10001 PCL sequence which changes the font to Univers 16 point After the check serial number prints 1000 the printer is returned to its default font with the following command PCL command to return to default font Print Secure font command Note The tilde is the command terminator PCL command to change the font to Courier 12 pitch Italic Print PCL Fonts from the Front Panel menu for a list of fonts with their call commands PCL command to return to the default font PCL command to print font number 20000 In this example font 20000 is a signature previously loaded into flash memory Here we call it and print it with an exclamation point PCL command to return to the default font PCL command to Push store the current cursor position PCL command to move the cursor to 296X 3184Y At 300 units of measure
67. normal printer action to any format problems or missing or extra symbols is to ignore the PJL command Source Technologies LLC 71 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix G PCL Font Call Commands After PJL has unlocked the MICR Flash resources the ST 9116 uses standard PCL5e commands to print The five resident Source Technologies MICR font resources are all bitmapped fonts and therefore cannot be scaled larger or smaller than the bitmapped images These fonts can be called by either a PCL Font Selection String or by their ID The commands are E13B MICR FONT lt ESC gt 100 lt ESC gt sOp8h8v0s7b360T The Selection String lt ESC gt 30802X The ID Call SECURE NUMERIC lt ESC gt 16C lt ESC gt sOp5h36v0s0b112T The Selection String lt ESC gt 30043X The ID Call ICR SECURE lt ESC gt 10 lt ESC gt s1p12v0s0b110T The Selection String lt ESC gt 30066X The ID Call MICROPRINT lt ESC gt 2Q lt ESC gt s1p1v0s0b112T The Selection String lt ESC gt 30055X The ID Call CMC7 MICR FONT lt ESC gt 14Y lt ESC gt s0p8h8v0s0b361T The Selection String lt ESC gt 30803X The ID Call MICR Font Note The E 13B and CMC7 Fonts are 8 characters per inch To position correctly at an exactly 8 characters per inch the printer must be set to an internal Unit of Measure of 600 DPI or greater or must have a horizontal motion index command at 8 CPI be issued after the font call This is true even if the base printer is at 600 DPI The def
68. o Update the Font list using the 96XXfont pcm file This will enable Windows applications to recognize the printer s secure fonts 9 From the Windows application se ect the installed printer 10 From a Windows application se ect the specific text to be printed Then se ect the secure font name and point size using the capabilities of the particular Windows application wee NS NO The following fonts and point size are supported Font Name Point Size Font Sample MICR E13B 8 pt iba i Qi 23 5b Sen MICR CMC7 8 pt Meee i 041224656229 s SECURE 36 pt SECURE 36 ICR Secure 12 pt CRS Mie d K 0123456789 x MicroPrint 1 orem 1 pt Note The fonts illustrated above may not match the size or appearance of those printed by the MICR printer The characters are enhanced for illustration purposes only Source Technologies LLC 6 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Downloading the Universal Driver 1 Browse to the URL below from your web browser http www sourcetech com support drivers asp 2 From this page go to the section for the particular operating system you are using such as Widows 2000 XP etc Click on your specific model such ST9612 ST9620 etc When the File Security dialog box appears select Save When the Save As file dialog box appears browse to a folder you have created or to the Desktop and save the driver zip file
69. ommand for syntax numbering errors Format flash memory to remove all existing resources or upgrade flash memory to a larger module 61 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printed Message Error Message on Display MICR Definition Line Count Error Description The number of digits in the MICR definition Command is not equal to four or there is a non hexadecimal character in the count Password length is not equal to eight characters MICR Password Password Password sent does Error Match Error not match the current stored password Non Non A command contained hexadecimal hexadecimal a non hexadecimal Value Received value value in a parameter received Non integer value received MICR Password Error Password Length Error Non Integer Value Received A parameter in a command was not an integer A secure command was sent without the password being sent first An SFF command was received but there is audit data in flash which should not be erased There was an internal error while trying to access Flash for an STL or STP command Password Not Enabled Error Purge Audit Report Then Format Secure File Not Unlocked Opene d Written Read Source Technologies LLC 62 Action Check your software for errors in the MICR definition Command SMCP Check the Password Command in your software it must be eight characters long Check the Password Command in your softw
70. one input tray use custom type rough and heavy to block linking MICR Toner Low Alarm When MICR toner is low the printer will stop and the user is prompted to load a new MICR toner cartridge Once low toner is sensed there may not be enough MICR toner left to produce quality MICR documents Note Shaking the cartridge to prolong its life is not recommended MICR Toner Sensing Wen the printer enters MICR mode and attempts to print a MICR font it verifies that a MICR toner cartridge is loaded in the printer If a regular cartridge is present an alarm will sound and the user must load a MICR cartridge before a print job will resume The message Load MICR Toner will appear on the operator s panel MICR Toner Use only Source Technologies MICR toner when printing MICR documents It is specifically engineered to print quality MICR documents with your printer The printer s MICR toner sensor is designed to work with the Source Technologies MICR toner cartridge to prevent printing checks with regular toner present Your Source Technologies MICR printer can be used for general office printing If a MICR print job begins and the printer has a regular toner cartridge present the printer will stop and prompt the operator to install a MICR toner cartridge Source Technologies does not recommend the use of refilled MICR toner cartridges Refilled cartridges may result in expensive printer repairs and bank check reject fees due to infe
71. onts 15 Configure another driver to print without MICR foner 15 Selecting TS PRIMO T 18 deg Ce e TEE 20 The Check Clearing SystelTi c irn Ca eese tes Add eg 20 MICR Printing Standards in the United States Today 20 MICR Check E d E 22 General Features of Check Deen 22 Position and Dimension Gauge cece cette errr reer etree reer reer rete treet ee eeeeeeeeeeeeeneees 22 Design Elements in RTR 22 REI REEL ER Q ality DE 27 Printer Eeatures sce D Eed RUN I EX EXER ER ERIMME XR E ER TR BER ENEE 27 MIC Ro Eon TEC ETE EE RETE ME 27 MICR Check e 28 Security ISSUS mi EDT 29 MICR Feature 31 MICR d e dete ghee ebbe ucc inte e t ue La deb chen a ta ete vale 31 UL rd ge ric T sia nasesasgeusbh argnashuandussexaiaeasesacalie 31 SECUIE TE OMS en ECL 31 leg el Ein ET 31 Bi Directionial Feedback ett Ee tete Endet E ge rd Mee aaa wanes 32 FROSOUICE SIOlAG Gia e e e TO e OC eee eee eee 33 era IT H 33 Entering MICR MO Ge ege 34 MICR Mode Gommands s o reed en ies siad usto EE 35 DES and AES Decryption ET 39 Custom Character Conversation Command cesses 41 Special Alert and Custom Beep Commande 41 MICRDoinEFOaltllO s ciiin ha det un I RRR KR SR XR ege eege deet 42 IBM Host Programming Features and Examples eeeeeeeee 44 FISK HEI eee Em E 44 Escape Character Translation 48 Audit Trail Reports 5 5
72. ore information on check stock specifications and security features Size The size of check documents must be 6 00 inches to 8 75 inches in length 2 75 inches to 3 66 inches in height We recommend standard 8 5 X 11 letter size stock or 8 5 X 14 legal size stock for proper feeding through your ST Secure MICR Printer The number of checks per page is determined by your application Custom size stock other than letter or legal can be done with proper planning and application programming within the paper size specifications for the base printer MICR Clear Band The MICR clear band is an area at the bottom of the check where the MICR line prints No other magnetic printing should appear in this area on both the front and back of the document The clear band is an area 0 625 5 8 inches high from the bottom of the check running the entire length of the check Exact MICR line placement in this area is very important Please refer to Figure 3 1 for more information on MICR line placement Source Technologies LLC 22 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Check Design 3 Data Elements Date The date is a required data element for a check It represents the day upon which or after which the transfer of the check amount may take place The date is usually placed in the upper right portion of the check so it does not interfere with the convenience amount field The common format is Month Day and Year however the military format of
73. p a network printer that is not attached to a print server use the Local printer option lt Back Cancel Source Technologies LLC 15 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 3 Choose the port to which your MICR printer is connected and then select Next gt Add Printer Wizard Select a Printer Port Computers communicate with printers through ports Select the port you want your printer to use If the port is not listed you can create a new port Use the following port ERT tne cnet w Note Most computers use the LPT1 part to communicate with a local printer The connector for this port should look something like this Create a new port lt Back Cancel 4 Select the Have Disk button and the Browse button and locate the driver files Select Source Technologies as the Manufacturer and select Next gt 5 Choose Keep existing driver and select Next gt Add Printer Wizard Use Existing Driver A driver is already installed for this printer You can use or replace the existing driver Source Technologies Da you want to keep the existing driver or use the new one di O Replace existing driver lt Back Cancel Source Technologies LLC 16 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 6 Enter a Printer name Add Printer Wizard to differentiate it from Name Your Printer the MICR instance of You must assign a
74. per MICR line spacing and X and Y cursor positioning PCL Macro Call The next command calls macro 100 that was previously loaded in RAM memory When called the graphic background logos and static data are written to the internal print buffer PCL Font Calls Positioning Commands and Variable Print Data The next eleven lines of data in the example call printer resident fonts position the cursor and print the variable information This is using the minimal data required particularly the font selection strings lt ESC gt s4099t0b10H being a very short version to call Courier normal weight 10 pitch Source Technologies LLC 74 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix G lt ESC gt p300x600Y is a PCL positioning command In this case its values are 600 pixels down and 300 pixels to the right of the upper left corner of the page The Unit of measure command determines the exact distance The next 4 lines call our secured MICR font resources We are using the ID for the font call The Form Feed prints the page PJL Re Lock Sequence The last two lines re lock the secured fonts The password was not changed in this example Source Technologies LLC 75 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Appendix H Appendix H Accounts Payable CHECK NO 123456 Source Technologies Inc 2910 Whitehall Park Drive Chartotte NC 28273 REFKNENCE NUMBES Sx XxX KX XXXXXXXXX xx xx xxxx TOTALS CHECK N
75. printer Printing Secure font resources from a Windows Application First set the MICR printer as the active printer in most applications this is done by selecting Print from the File menu This is not necessary if the MICR printer is the default printer Source Technologies fonts should appear in the application s font formatting options The fonts are named ICR Secure 12 pt MICR CMC7 8 pt MicroPrint 1 pt MICR E13B 8 pt SECURE 36 pt They will usually appear in alphabetical order among all other available fonts The font size must be selected as indicated in the font name The font displayed on the screen will not resemble the printed font Source Technologies LLC 18 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Comparison of printer drivers configured as MICR and non MICR CONFIGURED FOR MICR CONFIGURED FOR NON MICR pm Source Technologies MICR e ies Bt Source Technologies non MICR MICR_on sep separator page used Unlocks Secure Resources fonts Copy Count 1 Jam Recovery Off MICR Toner ONly DEFAULT MICRJOB ON MICR_off sep separator page used Locks Secure Resources fonts DEFAULT MICRJOB OFF Secure Fonts enabled by 96xxFont pcm ICR Secure 12 pt MICR CMC7 8 pt MICR E13B 8 pt MicroPrint 1 pt SECURE 36 pt No Secure Fonts Universal Driver Options to set on the driver Install Options tab Base printer Automatic duplex Multi
76. purpose feeder Flash memory card optional if installed Tray 2 optional Source Technologies LLC 19 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Overview 2 2 MICR Overview MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition All MICR documents have a MICR line with numbers and symbols printed in a unique MICR font with magnetically chargeable ink or toner Each character of the MICR font has a unique waveform when sensed magnetically Financial institutions and the Federal Reserve use the MICR line to identify and sort checks The high speed automated processing of checks and other financial documents depends on the accuracy and the integrity of the data printed in the MICR line Your new Source Technologies Secure MICR Printer is specifically designed to produce high quality MICR documents The Check Clearing System The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act Check 21 was signed into law October 28 2003 Prior to Check 21 checks traveled through the bank s high speed reader sorter equipment an average of near seven times in the Check Clearing process Some checks could be read up to 30 times or more by these machines In today s environment high and low speed check readers can capture a picture or image of the check allowing for images to be exchanged between financial institutions the Federal Reserve and other clearing houses This new law Check 21 defines what is called a Substitute Check and removed barrie
77. racters must be upper case Here is an example of a valid key command amp STSETDESKEY5f00FF7E3DA938eb The key value remains in the printer until another key command is received Printer power cycles and printer reset commands do not affect the key value The dollar sign is the command terminator and is required Set AES Decryption Key Command amp STSETAESKEY lt 32 Hex Characters gt The command also requires a MICR Password Command be sent prior to the Key Command The key data is similar to DES but is twice in length with 32 Hex character format representing the 16 byte or 128 bit key value Turn DES Decryption ON amp STDON Turn AES Decryption ON amp STAONS All data following the command terminator will be decrypted using the current key value stored in the printer and the DES or AES algorithm Decryption continues until a Decryption OFF command is received a printer panel reset occurs or printer power is cycled Printer software language resets do not stop decryption Turn DES Decryption OFF amp STDOFF Turn AES Decryption OFF amp STAOFF The OFF command resides within the encrypted data and must also be encrypted The OFF occurs after an 8 byte block DES or 16 byte block AES is received and decrypted The last block containing the OFF should either have the command right justified or padded out to the block boundary Any padding bytes after the command terminator will be discarded Sou
78. rce Technologies LLC 40 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 Custom Character Conversation Command The Custom Character Conversion Command can be used to resolve some problems in printer data streams An example might be to remove a special command character in an existing data stream that was used by your previous printer hardware Without changing your data stream these special characters can either be removed converted to Nulls or converted to other sets of data to accomplish what is required An example of this might convert a Skip Command used by an older generation printer to multiple Carriage Return Line Feed commands You could also store a PCL5 command in our SIMM and call it with one character in your data stream Only one type of conversion is permitted at any particular point in time but the function can be modified within a data stream multiple times The conversion information is stored in NVRAM and is retained through power off power on cycles This means you could send the command one time and all future print jobs would be converted Special precautions are required if printer fonts and macro s are downloaded to your printer This might require you to disable the function during downloads and re enable prior to your print data amp 96STOxx yy Xx is a double byte character to convert the following characters are not allowed amp 96 S T C and yy is a double byte string to convert
79. rd protected and will require the user to enter MICR mode with a valid password before they can be unlocked with the STP command Values below 10000 will be unsecured Resource number 5001 is reserved for the Audit Trail overlay Please see chapter 7 for more information Format Flash Memory amp SFFS amp SFF Lead in sequence Command terminator This command formats flash memory A valid password command must precede this command Caution All flash contents will be lost This includes all electronic forms signatures logos etc Secure Flash Resource Unlock Command amp STPXXXxx amp STP Unlock flash resource command XXXXX Flash resource number must be 5 digits Command terminator Unlocks a secure flash resource Tray Lock Command amp STTLHS amp STTL Lock tray command The tray to be locked choose from 1 2 or 3 only Command terminator This command prevents other applications from accessing a particular printer paper tray Tray Unlock Command amp STTUFS Source Technologies LLC 38 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 amp STTU Unlocks tray The tray to be unlocked choose from 1 2 or 3 only Command terminator Tray Swapping Commands amp STTSONS amp SSTTSOFF amp STTSON Turns tray swapping on amp STTSOFF Turns tray swapping off Command terminator This command allows you to redefine the PCL values for Trays 2 and 3 to allow software and operational
80. rint MICR E 13B Font amp SMDddd ddd amp SMD Lead in sequence ddd ddd Data to be printed in E 13B MICR font Command terminator Prints the specified data in the E 13B MICR font which is used in the United States Canada and Mexico The correct spacing begins at the cursor position modified by the MICRpoint adjustment setting at the start of the command After the terminator is sent the printer is returned to its default font After each Print E 13B command the MICR count is decremented by one Upon receiving this command the printer will verify that a MICR toner cartridge is installed and set the copies parameter to 1 See Appendix A for MICR E 13B font character mapping Source Technologies LLC 36 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide MICR Features 6 Print MICR CMC7 Font amp SM7ddd ddd amp SM7 Lead in sequence ddd ddd Data to be printed in CMC7 font Command terminator Prints the specified data in the CMC7 MICR font which is used in Europe and South America The font and its correct spacing begin at the current cursor position modified by the MICRpoint adjustment setting at the start of the command After the terminator is sent the printer will return to its default font and the MICR count will be decremented by one Upon receiving this command the printer will check to ensure a MICR toner cartridge is installed and set the copies parameter to 1 See Appendix B for CMC7 character mapping Print Secure Num
81. rior MICR toner formulation Source Technologies LLC 27 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Quality Issues 4 MICR Check Stock Check stock has a significant impact on the resulting quality and security of your MICR document Here are a few features that should be considered when selecting a check stock Please see Chapter 5 Security Issues for more information on check stock security features Quality Quality MICR check printing with your Source Technologies secure MICR printer requires check stock that matches the printer s requirements Source Technologies can supply paper specifically made for our printers If you wish to order check stock from other suppliers please show the following requirements to your sales representative We will test other suppliers paper for a nominal fee Layout Layout your check design before any paper is purchased or layout your design to existing check stock Keep perforations orientation special logos and any color elements in mind The printer can print just about anything as long as it is black Weight We recommend 24 Ib 29 Ib paper Stiffness We recommend Taber M D 2 5 and C D 1 1 minimum Smoothness For best toner fusing we recommend rougher surfaces within the base printers specifications and the Paper Specifications for Checks X9 100 10 We recommend a smoothness range of 150 to 200 Sheffield Paper Grain Direction When using 24 Ib 29 Ib bond paper we gener
82. rs that existed in converting physical checks to check images for clearing The original physical check can now be truncated by the first institution that converts the check to image The original check can now be destroyed United States and International MICR Standards still require the printed MICR line information to be of the highest quality and durability Additionally issues related to check fraud continue to place high importance on print quality For these reasons the quality and durability of information printed with Source Technologies Secure MICR Printers remains a key new product development criterion MICR Printing Standards in the United States Today Congress established the Federal Reserve System FRS in 1913 Today most commercial banks in the United States belong to the FRS Many other depository institutions provide banking and checking account services to the public These other institutions such as some credit unions savings and loan associations and non member banks are not formally part of the FRS However they have access to the payment services it provides and are subject to many of the FRS regulations In 1958 because of the explosive growth of check usage the American Bankers Association selected the E 13B MICR font and the MICR system as the technology for high speed check processing Today check standards are determined by the Accredited Standards Committee X9AB Payments Subcommittee of which Source Technologies
83. s LLC 8 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 4 x86 PCL Emul Universal Driver v1 3 InstallShield Wizard Location to Save Files Where would you like to save your files Please enter the folder where you want these files saved If the folder does not exist it will be created for you To continue click Next Save files in folder gt printers Drivers urivxL N E Gs 4 Leave the Save files in folder option as shown above then click Next 5 After the installation program installs the necessary files the following message will be displayed revealing the next steps required to install the driver At the same time an Add Printer Wizard will run as shown in the next step Printer Wizard Information Follow the instructions shown on the Windows Printer Wizard On the screen where you are asked to identify the printer manufacturer and printer model click the Have Disk button In the Install From Disk dialoa box enter the following path and then click OK CAPRINTERSSDRIVERSSUNIVALNSDRIVERSSPRINT SwIN ZK This path is also listed in the Copy manufacturers files from pulldown These instructions will remain until the Printer Wizard has completed installation Source Technologies LLC 9 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Add Printer Wizard Welcome to the Add Printer Q Wizard This wizard helps you install a
84. t can be utilized for silent installs Driver installation is required for View Additional Documentation printing Change Language 2 Click on View User s Guide for information on unpacking installing and operating your printer Source Technologies LLC 5 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 Driver Overview Your new MICR printer requires specific PCL 5 commands to load and print secure fonts such as the MICR E13B font These specific commands may be coded in to your custom application or if you use a software program such as Source Technologies CheckPartner Enterprise these commands are automatically sent to the printer as needed To print checks or other documents requiring secure fonts from other Windows applications please download the universal driver designed specifically to allow access to your printer s secured resources using the following steps Select the Driver Zip file matching your operating system and printer model Download this file to a location such as the Windows Desktop Unzip this file and make sure the Use Saved path option is selected Browse to the Source Tech Driver folder extracted from the zip file Run the driver install program For example Printer UDO 2KXP03 x86 PCL Emul sys en exe Follow the instructions to install the driver Configure the driver to use MICR on sep page separator file used to select MICR mode 8 Configure the driver t
85. t follow certain guidelines to be included in the column summation Dollar signs and commas must be properly located no more than two numbers after a decimal point and no alpha characters For example Valid Formats Invalid Formats 1 234 567 89 1 23 4321234 56 432 123 5 321 34 test 89 12 123 If the value in field 4 is in an invalid format that line will have a question mark to the right of the field and it will not be added to the total Under these circumstances the total will print with the notation Fields flagged with not included in total If the total exceeds 4 294 957 295 99 the printer will print an error message Total exceeds maximum value instead of the total Print Audit Report This prints an Audit Trail Report The Audit Trail Report is also part of the command set so the Audit Report can be printed and purged via the host application As a security control mechanism purging is only possible after entering a valid password The printer can store approximately 6 000 records or checks for each megabyte of flash If the Audit Report feature is activated and the printer s flash memory becomes full an error condition occurs The printer will stop printing and prompt the operator to print and purge the Audit Report memory See the following section for purge instructions Audit Trail Report Command Set amp SAR Start Audit Record amp SAR Lead in sequence Command terminator
86. t to change without notice The information and descriptions contained in this manual cannot be copied disseminated or distributed without the express written consent of Source Technologies LLC This document is intended for informational purposes only Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by Source Technologies LLC Final determination of the suitability of any information or product for use contemplated by any user and the manner of that use is the sole responsibility of the user We recommend that anyone intending to rely on any recommendation of materials or procedures mentioned in this publication should satisfy himself as to such suitability and that he can meet all applicable safety and health standards All trade names or products used in this manual are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Document Number 104557 Revision A Source Technologies LLC ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Table of Contents 1 9 Table of Contents Printer and Driver Installation eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenennn enn 5 Rive EE 6 Downloading the Universal Driver 7 UNZIPPING the Driver iet tetro a ar ertet e kt decente ie exea debe uud 7 Installing the BT 8 Configure the Driver to enable MICR Mode AEN 14 Configure the Driver to Recognize the Printer Secure F
87. titution identifier IMPORTANT positions 35 42 are the Routing Numbers position 34 is the check digit F Account Number This is a unique number assigned to the customer s account G Optional Serial Number Used for personal accounts checks only This should be a 4 digit zero filled field that matches the serial number in the upper right corner H Convenience Amount Area should be in the general location shown above in the diagram The illustrated box in the diagram is optional and if used should conform to ANS X9 7 A single stroke dollar sign is required Source Technologies LLC 26 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Quality Issues 4 4 Quality Issues A high quality MICR document can be read by bank reader sorter equipment many times with no readability issues and does not result in damage to bank equipment This quality is the result of a well designed printer an originally manufactured MICR toner cartridge and high quality check stock Printer Features Your Secure MICR Printer is equipped with some features to ensure high quality MICR documents Paper Type We recommend paper trays with check stock be set to bond paper type The associated weight and texture settings should be set to heavy and rough See the base printer s User s Guide If more than one input tray has check stock and they are the same stock set all to bond and they will become linked If different stock is used in more than
88. to can be 0 to 16 characters long command terminator Example amp 96STC1EODOA sets the convert character to 1E the printer will replace any 1E character in the data stream with OD OA carriage return line feed amp STC1E replace 1E with nothing simply removes all 1E characters from the data amp 96STCO0 turn character conversion off Special Alert and Custom Beep Command Using the Beep Command the printer data stream can alert the printer operator that important pages are currently being printed The STBEEP1 commands emits unique tones but does not stop the printer STBEEP2 stops the printing process and waits for the operator to press Go The Custom BEEP can be used to create an alternative beep pattern to STBEEP1 This may be used to indicate a certain document a custom signal to a different operator or just an alternative choice to STBEEP1 The Custom Beep command will not stop the printing process Note Beep Commands will not link together During the execution of a beep pattern all other beep commands are eliminated Source Technologies LLC 41 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Note The two digit frequency value is inverted Higher values result in lower frequency Emits three long beeps three short beeps three long beeps U amp STBEEP1 and three short beeps in succession amp STBEEP2 The operator s panel displays the message Press Go to Stop Beeping and repeatedly emits five
89. ts required on a check are the date amount payee name payer s bank name and payer s signature Other elements included in a good check design are the amount in words account title check serial number fractional routing number and MICR line A good check design contains security features and is formatted to be easily read by both machines and the human eye If the format is complicated the depositor bank employee or reader sorter machine may make an error in reading the data Position and Dimension Gauge A MICR position and dimension gauge like the one available from Source Technologies part number 205 1000MGE or 220 M1027 34 is an important tool for use in designing checks During check design check your output against this gauge to determine if the data elements date amount payee name payer s bank name and payer s signature are correctly positioned on your document Design Elements in Detail Paper The ideal paper for check production is 24 to 28 Ib laser bond Source Technologies MICR lab has tested paper stock from most major manufacturers and has compiled a list of products that produce superior results Contact your sales representative for this information For a fee Source Technologies will test your paper for proper MICR adherence and check reader sorter performance There are also many security features available to aid in the overall security of your MICR documents Please refer to Chapter 5 Security Issues for m
90. udit Report Field Four amp SQ4d d amp SQ4 Lead in sequence d d Data to be printed Command terminator This command identifies the data to be printed in the fourth column of the report It is a maximum of 16 characters in length Since a total of this field can be provided at the end of the Audit Trail Report it is typically used for the convenience amount field Note This is the only command where the is not a command terminator The tilde hex 7E acts as the command terminator Audit Report Field Five amp SQ5d d amp SQ5 Lead in sequence d d Data to be printed Command terminator This command identifies the data to be printed in the fifth column of the report This field is a maximum of eight characters Audit Report Field Six amp SQE6 amp SQEd d Lead in string Source Technologies LLC 52 ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Audit Trail Reports 8 d d Data to be printed Command terminator This command identifies the data to be printed in the sixth column of the report This field is a maximum of 19 characters Audit Report Field Seven amp SQ7d d amp SQ amp 7 Lead in string d d Data to be stored Command terminator This command identifies the data to be printed in the seventh column of the report This field is a maximum of 12 characters The data in this field is recorded for the Audit Report only Print and Purge Audit Report amp SPURGExx amp SPURGE Lead
91. v tee oa Ra Rad 61 PJL Info MICR Commande 61 PJL MICR Command Exvample nennen nennen 61 GT E Tillet e 61 PGIsipitial Set cose der dedo t ned rne dle uates le i oo e 61 POL Mero e REN 61 PCL Font Calls Positioning Commands and Variable Print Data 61 PJERe Eock Sequence edo ofrece een AI e eo Eon eter e ei oi e De ege rer e 61 Appendix H Accounts Payable eeeeeeessssseeesseeeeee rennen nnne nnn 61 Source Technologies LLC ST9650 Secure MICR Printer User s Guide Printer and Driver Installation 1 1 Printer and Driver Installation Note To access Source Technologies secure fonts loaded on the printer such as the E13B MICR font download the universal driver as described in the next section The printer drivers on this CD may be used for general office printing but do not facilitate using secure fonts For complete information on how to unpack and setup your printer see your printer s user s guide 1 Locate the CD that was shipped with your printer and load into CD drive The CD should auto run and the following screen will be displayed If auto run is disabled on your computer browse to the CD and click Setup exe to run Laser Printer Software and Documentation Install Printer and Software Selecting this option allows the user to install a printer driver documentation and i accompanying software on this View User s Guide system or save install scripts tha

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