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Digits printed in magnetic ink.
Also known as: Magnetic ink character recognition line, Cheque code line
The line of characters at the foot of a cheque, printed in magnetic ink for machine reading.
Carries the account, branch and cheque identifiers in a form a sorting machine can read.
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The typeface's stroke weights are varied on purpose so that each character produces a distinct magnetic waveform, which means the shapes are optimised for a magnetic head rather than for a human eye.
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Readable magnetically even through an overprinted signature or a stamp, which is why magnetic ink survived the arrival of optical scanning.
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A line of digits and blocky separator symbols at the foot of the cheque, set in a typeface of deliberately distinctive stroke weights.