QB and check printing

Posted by L on November 20, 2006, 4:00 pm

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I have a new printer in the office. With the previous inkjet printer, I was
able to use a check (or two) off the page, and feed the remaining check(s)
as a single in the same manner as my usual pages.

The new laser printer has an envelope feed.

I have tried selecting '1' as number of checks on first page, and selecting
center position on the 'Partial Page' tab, in order to feed from the
envelope feeder.

Initially, the problem was that the check fed landscape but the program
printed portrait (not Intuit-tive, as the picture for partial page SHOWS the
check going in like an envelope).

I selected 'landscape' for orientation in printer options (not liking it, as
I have to remember to change it the next time I print), but still, the
information is not coming out correctly on the check.

Yes, I have heard about "forms leaders" - interestingly my local office
supply stores do not carry them. I googled and found them only available
though Intuit (why does that surprise me?). With a wait time of several days
and a twenty person payroll (why, oh why, can I not print ALL types of
checks, so that I can have a number divisible by three?) I am looking for an
alternative.

Are these really needed to print checks? What could I be doing wrong on the
print checks screen? Is anyone successfully printing single checks using a
laser printer?

Posted by HeyBub on November 21, 2006, 1:38 pm

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L wrote:

> I have a new printer in the office. With the previous inkjet printer,

> I was able to use a check (or two) off the page, and feed the

> remaining check(s) as a single in the same manner as my usual pages.

> The new laser printer has an envelope feed.

> I have tried selecting '1' as number of checks on first page, and

> selecting center position on the 'Partial Page' tab, in order to feed

> from the envelope feeder.

> Initially, the problem was that the check fed landscape but the

> program printed portrait (not Intuit-tive, as the picture for partial

> page SHOWS the check going in like an envelope).

> I selected 'landscape' for orientation in printer options (not liking

> it, as I have to remember to change it the next time I print), but

> still, the information is not coming out correctly on the check.

> Yes, I have heard about "forms leaders" - interestingly my local

> office supply stores do not carry them. I googled and found them only

> available though Intuit (why does that surprise me?). With a wait

> time of several days and a twenty person payroll (why, oh why, can I

> not print ALL types of checks, so that I can have a number divisible

> by three?) I am looking for an alternative.

> Are these really needed to print checks? What could I be doing wrong

> on the print checks screen? Is anyone successfully printing single

> checks using a laser printer?

You problem is you're trying to print on, esentially, a scrap of paper with
a machine designed to handle a full page. That's like using a bicycle on a
freeway.

Use voucher checks (one per page) and all the problems, confusion, and
time-wasting disappears. This solution will cost you, oh, $10 more per year
in blank forms.

Alternatively, get an old dot-matrix printer with a friction feed. Use it
for only for printing checks. This solution will cost you, um, $30 for the
printer - which should last 25 years (hey, it's already lasted for twenty).

Posted by L on November 21, 2006, 7:49 pm

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>L wrote:

>> I have a new printer in the office. With the previous inkjet printer,

>> I was able to use a check (or two) off the page, and feed the

>> remaining check(s) as a single in the same manner as my usual pages.

>> The new laser printer has an envelope feed.

>> I have tried selecting '1' as number of checks on first page, and

>> selecting center position on the 'Partial Page' tab, in order to feed

>> from the envelope feeder.

>> Initially, the problem was that the check fed landscape but the

>> program printed portrait (not Intuit-tive, as the picture for partial

>> page SHOWS the check going in like an envelope).

>> I selected 'landscape' for orientation in printer options (not liking

>> it, as I have to remember to change it the next time I print), but

>> still, the information is not coming out correctly on the check.

>> Yes, I have heard about "forms leaders" - interestingly my local

>> office supply stores do not carry them. I googled and found them only

>> available though Intuit (why does that surprise me?). With a wait

>> time of several days and a twenty person payroll (why, oh why, can I

>> not print ALL types of checks, so that I can have a number divisible

>> by three?) I am looking for an alternative.

>> Are these really needed to print checks? What could I be doing wrong

>> on the print checks screen? Is anyone successfully printing single

>> checks using a laser printer?

> You problem is you're trying to print on, esentially, a scrap of paper

> with a machine designed to handle a full page. That's like using a bicycle

> on a freeway.

?? The printer has an envelope feed. I can print from Word on the envelope.
Yet QuickBooks cannot print on a check? (And the analogy is a bit skewed,
the new printer isn't a bicycle, it's more like a sports car - runs faster
with more bells and whistles)

> Use voucher checks (one per page) and all the problems, confusion, and

> time-wasting disappears. This solution will cost you, oh, $10 more per

> year > in blank forms.

Not true. 2000 3 to a page checks run around $107.00. 2000 voucher checks
run $173.00. A difference of $66.00 per box. But, cost issues aside,
printing 3 pages vs. 1 page per every three checks seems a bit wasteful.

> Alternatively, get an old dot-matrix printer with a friction feed. Use it

> for only for printing checks. This solution will cost you, um, $30 for the

> printer - which should last 25 years (hey, it's already lasted for

> twenty).

I pay a lot for my office 'real estate', Maintaining a seperate printer
'only for printing checks' takes up desk/table space currently used for
other purposes.

Posted by Golden California Girls on November 22, 2006, 2:31 am

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L wrote:

>> L wrote:

>>> I have a new printer in the office. With the previous inkjet printer,

>>> I was able to use a check (or two) off the page, and feed the

>>> remaining check(s) as a single in the same manner as my usual pages.

>>>

>>> The new laser printer has an envelope feed.

>>>

>>> I have tried selecting '1' as number of checks on first page, and

>>> selecting center position on the 'Partial Page' tab, in order to feed

>>> from the envelope feeder.

>>>

>>> Initially, the problem was that the check fed landscape but the

>>> program printed portrait (not Intuit-tive, as the picture for partial

>>> page SHOWS the check going in like an envelope).

>>>

>>> I selected 'landscape' for orientation in printer options (not liking

>>> it, as I have to remember to change it the next time I print), but

>>> still, the information is not coming out correctly on the check.

>>>

>>> Yes, I have heard about "forms leaders" - interestingly my local

>>> office supply stores do not carry them. I googled and found them only

>>> available though Intuit (why does that surprise me?). With a wait

>>> time of several days and a twenty person payroll (why, oh why, can I

>>> not print ALL types of checks, so that I can have a number divisible

>>> by three?) I am looking for an alternative.

>>>

>>> Are these really needed to print checks? What could I be doing wrong

>>> on the print checks screen? Is anyone successfully printing single

>>> checks using a laser printer?

>> You problem is you're trying to print on, esentially, a scrap of paper

>> with a machine designed to handle a full page. That's like using a bicycle

>> on a freeway.

> ?? The printer has an envelope feed. I can print from Word on the envelope.

> Yet QuickBooks cannot print on a check? (And the analogy is a bit skewed,

> the new printer isn't a bicycle, it's more like a sports car - runs faster

> with more bells and whistles)

>> Use voucher checks (one per page) and all the problems, confusion, and

>> time-wasting disappears. This solution will cost you, oh, $10 more per

>> year > in blank forms.

> Not true. 2000 3 to a page checks run around $107.00. 2000 voucher checks

> run $173.00. A difference of $66.00 per box. But, cost issues aside,

> printing 3 pages vs. 1 page per every three checks seems a bit wasteful.

>> Alternatively, get an old dot-matrix printer with a friction feed. Use it

>> for only for printing checks. This solution will cost you, um, $30 for the

>> printer - which should last 25 years (hey, it's already lasted for

>> twenty).

> I pay a lot for my office 'real estate', Maintaining a seperate printer

> 'only for printing checks' takes up desk/table space currently used for

> other purposes.

Ah, poor baby. Didn't buy those lazer taxi's did you. Didn't realize you
needed them did you. Well you do. Lots of them.

Since you are saving so much on those checks, well you must print a lot of them.
Just learn to pay your vendors in batches of 3!

SlowBooks isn't Slowken. It wasn't set up for super small check runs of 1. No
it won't rotate your check and print it. Slowken will. You might check it out
[pun intended]

Posted by L on November 22, 2006, 8:52 am

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> Ah, poor baby. Didn't buy those lazer taxi's did you. Didn't realize you

> > needed them did you. Well you do. Lots of them.

> Since you are saving so much on those checks, well you must print a lot of

> them. Just learn to pay your vendors in batches of 3!

> SlowBooks isn't Slowken. It wasn't set up for super small check runs of

> 1. No it won't rotate your check and print it. Slowken will. You might

> check it out [pun intended]

I expected better of you.

I've been participating in this ng for 5 years now. I'm not a troll, not
nasty, and in general I give as much good information as I get.

Now, I am not running small batches of checks. Nor is my business small
enough for Quicken which, as you so deftly pointed out, would not have a
problem with printing single checks.

When I print checks they don't always group in 3. Most notably, my weekly
payroll for twenty employees causes a leftover single check. Add to that two
partners checks, which, stupidly, have to be printed separately from payroll
checks, and I have an additional leftover single check.

QuickBooks SHOWS an option for single print on the screen. An option that
currently is not working with my new printer.

I find it difficult to believe my company is the only company using an HP
laser to print checks, or the only company to use 3 per page checks.

But I am astounded to find that a request for information on what I believed
to be issue affecting multiple users, was met with sarcasm, animosity,
disdain and a general lack of helpfulness.

I've lost count of the number of threads in which you've vilified others for
posting in a similar vein as your reply to me.

I'll leave you with one of your own quotes "There ain't no way that someone
who is such as asshole on this newsgroup isn't one face to face."