Check Printer Help
Accounts Tab
On the Accounts Tab you enter the information that will be needed on the
printed check. The same info is used on both single and multiple checks.
The dropdown list has room for multiple accounts. You can have any
number of accounts that have their own settings.
This information is available from your previous checks or from your
bank.
To add a new account, click the "Add New Account" button.
Give the account a new name. If the "Copy From Current" is checked, the
new info will be filled in with the info already shown in the previous
shown account.
Each account is used for both Multi personal checks and Single Business
checks. You can have any number of accounts.
Printing Blank Personal Checks
The Check Printer App can print blank checks onto pre-printed check paper
that you can purchase at office supply stores or online. Check Printer
uses a user defined template to print on the sheet, so the checks can be
printed with any text, pictures, logos, backgrounds.
Check# - shows the next check
number that will be used.
Number of Pages to Print - Number of
times the template will be sent to the printer. One sheet of three checks
would be one page.
Check Printing Template - Choose the
template file that will be used to print on these checks.
Number of Checks on Page is required
to keep the check numbers in sync.
Printing Single Business Checks
You can use single check paper to print one
check with the payee and amount filled in.This would use a separate
template for one check.
Add/Delete Payees
Press the Add/Delete Payees button and you can add or delete payees to
the dropdown list.
Saving the Transactions to the Database
When printing single checks with the payee data the transaction can be
saved to a database so you will have a record of all the checks you wrote.
Printing Multiple Single Checks
You can have a CSV file with multiple rows in it where each row has the
info items for each Single check.
Your spreadsheet program can output a CSV
file.
You can have 1 to 4 checks per page. For
the second and third check on the page you use different variables for
the text. For the second check you would use on the template
"PayAmount2" variable etc. On the the third check on the page you would
use "PayAmount3" variable etc.
The CSV file is a comma delimited text
file, with the first row having the column names. Requires Name and
Amount columns, can also have Date and Memo and Address columns. A blank
date will print today's date.
You could print 3 business or personal
checks per page.
Number of
Checks on Page is required to sync the rows in the CSV file to
the checks on the page.
You can choose to save the printed
transaction check data to the database or not with the checkbox.
Settings Tab
"Check
Number Leading Zeros" - the number of leading zeros on the
check number can be controlled here.If the Number of Digits is greater
than in the current check number then the extra digits in front will
be zeros.
"Show Print
Dialog" checkbox will cause the printer dialog box to be
shown every time you print so you can adjust any printer settings.
User Data Folder shows path to data and
setting and template files. Install Folder shows where the executable
file has been installed.
"Printer"
dropdown list. This list is automatically filled in with the installed
printers on the computer. If your printer is not on the list maybe the
printer is not installed correctly.
"Edit
Template" button will ask you to choose an existing template
from the dropdown list. This will open the template file in the report
editor.
"Use
Asterisk Fill". This setting will use asterisks in front and
after the Amount and Written Amount as a security feature.
The MICR Encoding Font
The font that is used for printing bank routing numbers is included in
the installation. It will be installed to the font directory during the
installation. May need to reboot to see the font in the font directory.
The font is also in the user data folder for manual installation.
Operation
Database Settings and Export
When you print a check the transaction data can be saved to a database.
The saved database items are shown in the data grid. The items in the grid
can be exported to a CSV file in Comma Deliminated Format. Whatever is
shown in the grid can be exported. Use the date filtering to filter only
the ones you want in the grid.
The Export to CSV File button will ask you for a filename.
The Delete Records button will delete any shown items in the grid
permanently from the database. Use this to clean out records you don't
need anymore.
Check Printing Templates
The printed check items are completely user configurable. You can use any
brand or kind of check forms. On the Settings tab, press the Edit Template
button. Choose an existing template from the dropdown list. This will open
the template file in the report editor.
Editing the template.
The things you may want to do with the
temples are:
1. Move things around with the mouse..
2. Add or delete items.
Delete items by
highlighting them and pressing Delete key on your keyboard.
A new item is made by going to the Right side
bar "Variables" tab. This shows all the built-in variables that can be
used on the template. Drag and Drop them from the list onto the template.
There are 4 sets of variables for up to 4 checks per page, The PayAddress
variable is only available when batch printing from a CSV file.
You can adjust the properties of the text in
the Properties side bar.
For just plain text you can click the Text
Object tool button and drop it on the template. Then double click on it to
type the text.
You add pictures when in the template editor
by clicking the Picture button and dragging to where you want to put the
picture on your template.
Then choose a picture file in the Object Inspector:
You can send the picture to the background or foreground with Main menu -
Edit - Send to Back or Bring to Front.
You can make a new template by copying an
existing template file to a new filename.The file extension must be "fr3"
and be saved in the User Data Folder in order to show up in the template
list dropdown.
A general user help file for the Report
Designer is the
ReportUserManual.pdf file
included in the installation.
Scripting
The printing template supports using embedded scripts for those special
customizing needs.
System Menu
If you go into the System Menu, you can find the About info and the
Registration window.
About Box
See the About Box for version information.
Registration Window
The Registration Window shows activation status. To activate the software
from trial version to registered version, enter the Order Reference Number
you received when you purchased and press the Activate button. You need to
be connected to the internet but only at this initial activation.
If no Internet connection at the PC you
install it on: If no Internet connection is available at that
computer, contact support@i-logic.com Send us the "Hardware ID" that appears
in your Activation window along with the Order Reference Number on your
receipt and we will send you an activation code to enter. Note: Activating
over the Internet is a one time event - you don’t need the Internet after
that. So if you can just temporarily connect the computer to the Internet
for the activation that will work.
For questions or problems send email to support@i-logic.com
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