APCA - Design Specifications for Cheques and Deposit Forms

The latest version is effective from 19 May 2008.

This publication has been prepared for designers, printers and customers who wish to use individually designed cheques and deposit forms. It provides information about the requirements for design and layout, with particular emphasis on the location and print requirements of the area for the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) system, and the areas of interest used for the Intelligent Character Recognition system for image based processing.

The majority of measurements in this publication have been derived from cheque printing equipment which was manufactured using imperial measurements. Metric conversion equivalents have been given to the nearest millimetre.

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