MICR Toner
Rosetta Technologies has a team of chemists and engineers who work tirelessly on the MICR toner formulation for each MICR printer to ensure consistent high-quality MICR toner performance throughout the life of the printer and to guarantee adherence to national and international MICR industry standards.
There are four key elements that are evaluated and perfected with every type of MICR toner:
- Character Signal Strength – measurement of the magnetic property of the toner
- Adhesion – ability to adhere or fuse the toner to the paper stock
- Durability – the performance of the toner through multiple passes in reader/sorters
- Toner life – the measure of output expected per toner cartridge or bottle
- Cohesion—ability of toner molecules to adhere or fuse to each other
Learn more about Rosetta Technologies' MICR toner and the MICR printer engineering process.
Dual Component Toner Systems
Traditional mono-component cartridge-based systems have difficulty MICR signal strength over the life of a mono-component cartridge, resulting in more reader-sorter rejects of checks. Also, maintaining MICR print quality at the higher print speeds of current generation printers creates real challenges for other toner manufacturers and their customers. And because the developer and photoconductor are typically housed in the same cartridge, you end up throwing away the whole cartridge even if not all of the material is depleted.
In contrast, Rosetta Technologies' printers utilize a dual-component toner system. Dual component toner allows for greater control over MICR signal strength and more consistent MICR output quality over the entire life of the consumable. Dual-component is much easier to engineer for higher print speeds (Rosetta Technologies offers MICR printers and toner from 31 ppm to 184 ppm). Finally, with Rosetta's dual component toner system, you replace only the individual supplies that are depleted or worn, drastically reducing the overall cost-per-page.
Promark™ MICR Toner
Since the invention of laser MICR toner, researchers have struggled to develop toner that could match the reader-sorter performance of checks printed using magnetic inks. Ink penetrates check stock and is locked into the paper’s fibers. Laser toner sits on top of the paper, which in certain environments can create problems with toner adhesion and cohesion. Running checks through reader-sorter machines makes things worse, by exposing them to friction and heat. Toner rubs off, making subsequent reads less reliable and increasing rejects. And as the toner gums up the reader sorters, the equipment becomes less reliable and requires more frequent maintenance.
Rosetta Technologies' ground breaking Promark MICR toner is the industry's first polyester-based MICR toner specially formulated for the most demanding check and IRD printing environments. While typical MICR toner is polystyrene-based, Rosetta's Promark MICR toner is polyester-based, which is proven to withstand higher temperatures and have stronger cohesion properties.
Combined with other proprietary elements of the toner formulation, Promark MICR toner virtually eliminates reader-sorter rejects. While traditional polystyrene-based toners typically yield 4-5% reader/sorter reject rates, independent testing of Rosetta’s Promark MICR toner has produced reject rates of 0.1% or less. Designed for customers who are especially concerned with reject rates, Promark MICR toner approaches the reader-sorter performance of ink!
The following chart compares reader/
sorter performance for four
different MICR media. As
demonstrated, Promark MICR
toner experiences the lowest
reject rate of any laser MICR
toner on the market.
Promark MICR toner is available on a variety of Rosetta Technologies' MICR printers.
1. As indicated, reject rates for typical MICR toner ranges from 2-4%
2. Source: Xerox.com, © 1999-2008 XEROX CORPORATION.
3. As determined by independent testi ng on an IBM 3890 high-speed reader/sorter |
