Holiday HomeWork

[Ravichandran]

Please check this forum for your Holiday homework

Ravi

 

[Ravichandran]

Hello AS computing Block 5 students, please note this forum would be purely for the March holiday Homework. I will be posting few assignments for you to compelte during the holiday time. Dont worry! it would be a small assignments only.
Ravi

[Ravichandran]

Dear students,
Welcome to this AS computing Web portal. I hope you will enjoy this a lot. For your first holiday homework,. can you please explain as to what you know about MICR in about 5 sentences. Please check you cie notes or any Text book that you may have for this topic. However, you could also check the PowerPoint and other swf files i have given you during our theory classes. So go ahead and send your task here in this forum.
Ravi

[Munir Naqiuddin]

Ok Mr Ravi.. U guys.. Dont talk nonsense here..

[Ravichandran]

Firstly, hisyam, your answer is not 100% correct.
Let me take your sentece "It is a system usually used by banks to check or scan cheques and money.".
Actually, the bank uses the MICR for printing Magnetic characters in the Cheques they issue. Later when the bank finds if any forgery in the cheque issued then the cheque is passed inside a Magnetic ink Reader which then scans for appropriate characters to find any discrepancies in the issued cheques.

Ravi


Akmal Hisyam said:

MICR is a short form for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. It is a system usually used by banks to check or scan cheques and money. The cheques is passed though a machine, then it magnitizes the ink and translate the magnetic information into characters. The ink used are also specialize for this process. By doing this, the process of scanning and processing information is much faster.

Mr. Ravi, I'm curious, it is the same as some shop use bar code scanner? Or it is different?

[Munir Naqiuddin]

MICR is Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. It is a character recognition system that uses special ink and characters. When a document that contains this ink needs to be read, it passes through a machine, which magnetizes the ink and then translates the magnetic information into characters. I only know that the MICR technology is used by banks. Numbers and characters found on the bottom of checks (usually containing the check number, sort number, and account number) are printed using Magnetic Ink. To print Magnetic Ink need, you need a laser printer that accepts MICR toner. With MICR, the checks are highly secured. Is it correct?

Mr.Ravi, is the ink is some sort of metal. How it can be magnetized?

[Ravichandran]

Well the INK is a special type of ink (costly) mostly made up of ferrous-oxide.

Munir Naqiuddin said:

MICR is Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. It is a character recognition system that uses special ink and characters. When a document that contains this ink needs to be read, it passes through a machine, which magnetizes the ink and then translates the magnetic information into characters. I only know that the MICR technology is used by banks. Numbers and characters found on the bottom of checks (usually containing the check number, sort number, and account number) are printed using Magnetic Ink. To print Magnetic Ink need, you need a laser printer that accepts MICR toner. With MICR, the checks are highly secured. Is it correct?

Mr.Ravi, is the ink is some sort of metal. How it can be magnetized?

[Ravichandran]

Azim, That is a good doubt. You have Magnetic ink Character reader, which is used to scan the characters printed using Magnetic ink character printer. The process is called Magnetic ink characer recognistion.

Muhamad Azim Bin Abdul Aziz said:

sir, does that mean MICR is not used to scan whether the check or cash issued is fake?
or is it only used to print the magnetic characters in the cheques?
doesn't that mean that MICR IS used to see whether it is a forfeit cheque or valid cheque?

[Ravichandran]

Yes, Natasaya, that seems to be an interesting notes on MICR.Well done.
Ravi


Natasya Amylia Zainol Abidin said:

Mr Ravi,
We know that MICR is the abbreviation of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. The machine recognition of numeric data or character printed in special typefaces with magnetically charged ink or toner, usually containing iron oxide, FeO (It contain this type of metal because iron is easily found and abundant compared to other types of metals and since it is one of the ferromagnetic substances,it is easily magnetized). It is used to print magnetic characters on bank checks, bank notes and deposit slips. MICR readers detect the characters after the machine magnetizes the characters on the financial transaction documents and convert them into digital data. It serves as a deterrent to fraud, because a photocopied check will not be printed with magnetic ink and the machine cannot read them as there are no characters on the notes being magnetized.

[Ravichandran]

Cannot understand your question Azim

Muhamad Azim Bin Abdul Aziz said:

MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) is a character recognition technology used primarily by the banking industry to allow the processing of cheques. The technology allows computers to read information (such as account numbers) off of printed document when scanned.MICR characters are printed in special typefaces with a magnetic ink or toner, that contains iron oxide. the process starts by magnetizing the characters in the plane of the paper, Then the characters are passed over a MICR head reader, a device similar to the playback head of a tape recorder. As each character passes over the head it produces a unique waveform that can be easily identified by the system.is this correct?

Mr Ravi, the magnetic ink contains iron oxide. why is it that the cash are able to maintain its condition as it ages?

[Ravichandran]

Ink cannot be metal, it is a ink that contain FeO as main content.

Ravichandran said:

Well the INK is a special type of ink (costly) mostly made up of ferrous-oxide.

Munir Naqiuddin said:

MICR is Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. It is a character recognition system that uses special ink and characters. When a document that contains this ink needs to be read, it passes through a machine, which magnetizes the ink and then translates the magnetic information into characters. I only know that the MICR technology is used by banks. Numbers and characters found on the bottom of checks (usually containing the check number, sort number, and account number) are printed using Magnetic Ink. To print Magnetic Ink need, you need a laser printer that accepts MICR toner. With MICR, the checks are highly secured. Is it correct?

Mr.Ravi, is the ink is some sort of metal. How it can be magnetized?

[Ravichandran]

Thanks Euga

Euganeshkaran said:

MICR is short for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition.
The banking industry, mainly, uses this technology to help in processing cheques.
A magnetic ink prints these characters in the form of special typefaces on documents.
When the particular document is passed through a special machine, the machine decodes the characters by magnetizing them and then transferring them onto the MICR read head to be read.
Each character produces a unique waveform that then can be easily identified by the system operating the machine.
MICR provides a secure, high-speed method of scanning and processing information.

[Ravichandran]

Mostly in banks. I could not find other application. May be in application to print numbers or in Share certificate to print the certificate numbers MiCR can be used.
RAvi


Nik Rusydan Nik Hafizi said:

MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition.
It is a character recognition system which largely used by the banking industry in processing cheques.
This technology uses special typefaces with a magnetic ink, normally made up of iron oxide.
To decode the MICR character, we need to use a special machine that can magnetize the ink which will then pass over a MICR read head.
The system can easily identify the character by the unique waveform produced by each character.
The use of magnetic printing enables the characters to be read reliably even if they have been overprinted or obscured by other marks.

Mr Ravi, other than that on the cheques, is there any other example of MICR??