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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Phillip M Martinez, Groton, NY (US);
Scott J Longrod, Lansing, NY (US);
Assignee:
Axiohm Transaction Solutions, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235439 ; 235449 ;
Abstract
In an MICR encoder of a point-of-sale transaction printer, the MICR characters must be printed at a precise distance to the right edge of the check in order to place the MICR in the proper field site. In order to accomplish this, an optical sensor is provided in a check processing mechanism of a point-of-sale printer, to detect the edge of the check and stage it at a known location from a thermal, MICR printhead. It then becomes an easy matter to advance the check by a stepper, drive and print motor a fixed number of step increments in order to start the printing sequence.