WIO Bank Cheque Printing — A 157 Millimetre Cheque

The two WIO books

Seventy-three millimetres tall is the number that matters. A WIO leaf is about three-quarters the height of a wide UAE cheque, so the four ruled lines sit close together. There is very little vertical slack: a two-millimetre drift that nobody would notice on a 99 mm cheque puts the amount in words on top of the rule here.

Why short cheques defeat most setups

Cheque printing tools are generally built around the wide UAE leaf, because that is what most banks issue. Hand them a 157 × 73 mm cheque and two things go wrong at once. The printer centres the text as though it were on a bigger page, and the tray pulls the short sheet in at an angle because the guides are still set wide.

• Set a custom paper size of 157 × 73 mm. Do not leave it on A4.
• Feed from the manual or multipurpose tray, never the main cassette.
• Close the side guides until they touch the leaf without bending it.
• One leaf at a time. Short, stiff stock is what double-feeds.
• Test on a photocopy cut to the same size, not on a real cheque.

Once the custom size and the guides are right, a WIO cheque prints as reliably as any other. It is the first setup that takes the care.

The four fields on a small leaf

Date, payee, amount in words, amount in figures. The software only prints the text fields onto WIO's own stationery. Because the lines are tight, the stored layout uses a smaller default text size on this cheque than on a wide one — enough to sit inside the rules cleanly while staying easy to read at a counter.

The amount in words wraps to a second line earlier here than on any other bank in the library, simply because the rule is short. That is expected behaviour, not a fault. Check the wording of a figure first with the amount to words converter.

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