What is MICR OEM Toner?

Many people don't understand what MICR OEM Toner is. MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. This is a computer technology that was developed by Bank of America and Stanford University. It was designed to help the banking industry automate the process of sorting and matching checks.

OEM stands for original equipment manufacturer. For example, if you own an HP LaserJet printer and want an HP MICR OEM toner cartridge, you would buy a MICR toner cartridge that was manufactured by HP.

MICR Toner is used to print bank checks on plain paper. It is different from the normal toner. MICR toner contains approximately 50% of iron oxide additives. The iron oxide properties permit the magnetic characters at the bottom of the check to be read by the bank MICR readers. Once the check information is read, the check is sorted and matched automatically. This saves the banks many hours of manual labor.

As part of the development of the MICR technology, Stanford University had to develop a special font. This font became know as the E-13B font. It consists of 14 characters, which include the numbers 0-9, and four symbols for Transit, On-Us, Amount and Dash.

Since HP has the majority of the laser printer market, most of their laser printers (and all of their current laser printers) are capable of printing checks using the MICR technology.

MICR OEM cartridges will always work in your laser printer. However, they are much more expensive than compatible MICR toner cartridges. A compatible MICR cartridge is a MICR toner cartridge made by a third party company to the exact specification of your laser printer. These compatible MICR cartridges are significantly cheaper and will give you high quality MICR printing.

If you’re in the market for MICR OEM toner or a compatible MICR toner cartridge, be sure to purchase from the best suppliers of MICR toner cartridges. If you do, you’ll experience the best toner products and services in the industry.

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