Regular Toner, Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) Toner and Your Laser Printer

• Regular toner and Magnetic Ink Character Recognition toner also known as MICR toner is a combination of plastic ink and iron oxide. All toner (MICR and Regular) contains a portion of iron oxide. The iron oxide in regular toner has an approximate signal strength of 30. To print an image, a laser printer will magnetize the drum inside the laser. This drum will pull the toner formula onto the drum in the image desired to be printed. The drum will roll over the document while heating the toner formula and producing your image.
• The American Banking Association requires a MICR toner cartridge to produce an Iron Oxide Signal Strength of 50. Europe and Canada require a signal strength of 80. The signal strength of our MICR toner formula is 100 to 114. Part of our ISO 9001 Quality Process is to do a signal strength check on each batch of our MICR toner. Any MICR toner with a signal strength of less than 100 is rejected by our Quality Control team.
• Your bank will read the MICR line using an optical character reader or sorter. Your checks will pass through this MICR reader at approximately 70 miles per hour. If your MICR toner cartridge prints the MICR line at a signal strength of less than 50, your check will be rejected by your bank. A rejected check now requires manual input by the bank and additional bank charges to you for each rejected check.
• Iron oxide is one of the components used to make a MICR toner cartridge for a laser printer. Iron Oxide, being heavier than plastic ink, will settle to the bottom of the MICR cartridge while in your printer. A MICR cartridge will produce an Iron Oxide Signal strength which varies from a low to a high as the printer uses the toner. As the MICR toner gets used, the percentage of Iron Oxide to Plastic Ink remaining in the cartridge increases.
• Our MICR toner cartridge will never register less than 100 for signal strength. Companies choosing to make a MICR cartridge with an aggregate signal strength of 50 will find their cartridges failing the bank check reader.
• Each laser printer fuses the toner formula at different temperature levels. The Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) toner formula needs to be designed specifically for your printer. Many companies will use the same MICR formula for all printers resulting in incomplete fusing of MICR toner to your checks. This failed toner fusing results in a high reject rate from the bank. Each batch of our MICR toner is specifically designed for the fusing temperature required by your laser printer.
• The high percentage of Iron Oxide in a MICR and regular toner cartridge will cause significant wear to the internal components of the cartridge. Each toner cartridge we produce consists of entirely new components. We believe you cannot re-use the components in a toner cartridge. We believe the Iron Oxide in MICR toner and regular toner will wear down "B" grade and re-used cartridge components resulting in premature cartridge failure.
• We do not use the cheap toner and cheap parts flooding the marketplace. No "B" grade supplies ever! We proudly mention the parts we use.
• Our Micr and regular toner cartridges are built using brand new cores. The casing, toner hopper and waste collector are cleaned with compressed air and wiped down with a lint-free cloth.
• The drum is replaced with a new Mitsubishi drum, designed specifically for your laser printer.
• EVERY gear, screw, and spring are inspected, and replaced as needed.
• The wiper blade, doctor blade, primary charge roller (PCR) and magnetic roller are replaced with Tuico blades.
• Premium seals are used to secure leak free usage.
• The toner hopper is filled to the top with IMEX toner. All of our regular and MICR toner exceeds the manufacturer's Standards.
• Print testing occurs on each finished cartridge. Each sample page is inspected for gray scale quality. 
• 1% of each model’s production is stress tested. We print continuous pages at 18% coverage until the cartridge is empty. The cartridge is disassembled and inspected for imperfections.
• We drop test .5% of finished cartridges. The cartridge is dropped eight times per corrugated box side. The corrugated box is opened to verify fitness for use on our packed cartridges.