System and method for pre-treating magnetic ink character recognition readable documents
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsKurt I. Halfyard, Christine D. Anderson, T. Brian McAneney, Gordon Sisler, George A. Gibson
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a printing system is described having a first printer including a fuser employing fuser oil, and a coater disposed upstream or downstream from the first printer and being configured to deposit a wax coating on a portion of the substrate. A corresponding method and a substrate also are described. The system, method and substrate are useful for preparing MICR encoded documents such as checks.
Claims15
A substrate comprising a first surface having fuser oil thereon, a portion of the first surface including a fuser oil mitigating wax coating having a plurality of cracks therein having a length of 100-300 microns and a width of 2-4 microns through which a portion of the fuser oil is absorbed, and a magnetic ink image having a magnetic signal strength of at least 80% formed over the wax coating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.