[Novalug] check printing software for linux?

[Jay Hart]

> I know that Bank of America lets you pull a scan of the cancelled check
> online at no cost.  I switched to Wachovia recently but haven't tried to do
> this yet.
>
> Ken
>
> On 12/8/07, Beartooth <karhunhammas at lserv.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>>
>> > Ok Jay -- rethink it this way --
>> >
>> > Checks are simply a template for a specific layout on paper.
>> > It's just a matter of what level of effort you want to go
>> > through, to set it up.  <snip>
>>
>> > A free native solution is generally "sit down with some kind of
>> > word processing software" and make it work with the check
>> > paper.  I looked at it, and in the end up just bought checks.
>> > If it's a big issue, check the millions of "check printers"
>> > that don't go through a bank and charge less.
>>
>>         Another basically OT point : I've managed not to do any
>> business with any bank in donkey's years -- credit unions
>> invariably give better deals. The only advantage a bank *used* to
>> have was giving your cancelled checks back; but they don't any
>> more, and charge like crazy for poor substitutes.
>>
>>         But a credit union "check" -- technically a bank draft, I
>> believe -- comes with special paper, leaving you a carbon of each
>> one. The private check printers (which I always use) can handle
>> that, no sweat -- except that they seldom if ever give you a
>> choice between end stub, top stub, and no stub; but even if
>> ordinary people could get the paper, could any consumer printer
>> do the job??
>>

Duplicate checks????  I've used them for years, so why I would need the bank
to send back my canceled checks?  Only if  spotted something fishy with my
balance at the end of the month. I try very hard to balance checkbook each
month.

Jay


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