Standard Chartered UAE Cheque Printing (SC-001)

210 millimetres wide, 89 tall

Two hundred and ten millimetres is the short edge of an A4 sheet. A Standard Chartered leaf uses the full width your printer can take, with nothing to spare on either side, and it is flatter than other wide cheques at 89 mm tall rather than 99.

That combination makes it the least forgiving leaf to feed. On a 199 mm cheque a couple of millimetres of lateral drift is absorbed by the margin; at 210 mm there is no margin. If the sheet goes in a millimetre off-centre, the amount in figures is the field that shows it, because it sits closest to the right edge.

Feeding a full-width cheque

• Set a custom paper size of 210 × 89 mm. An A4 setting makes the printer position text for a 297 mm long page and everything lands low.
• Feed from the manual or multipurpose tray with the guides set exactly to the leaf.
• Feed one at a time and square the leaf against the guide before it is drawn in.
• Run the first test on a photocopy. Hold it against a real cheque up to the light to confirm every field sits inside its rule.

Once the custom size is stored in the printer driver you do not revisit it. The care is in the first setup.

The printed fields

Date, payee, amount in words, amount in figures. The software only prints the text fields; Standard Chartered's own stationery supplies the bank printing, the account details and the magnetic band. On an 89 mm leaf the four rules sit closer together than on a 99 mm one, so the stored layout keeps the text size down to sit cleanly inside them.

To read the wording a figure will produce before you print it, use the AED amount to words converter.

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