Sunday, September 8, 2013

Check Designs Making Use Of Soy Ink Alternatives

By Arman Cheshire


People are starting to realize that the internet affords more comparative choices for choosing check designs. The huge choices at one's fingertips offers more variety by allowing the purchaser opportunity to buy direct from the large check printers. These established printing companies in turn pass back a large price break to their customers. It always pays to shop around and not get caught up paying more at the local bank.

There is a wide diversity of choice when it comes to categories available when choosing a particular check design. American wonders, sports checks, ethnic, flowers and nature, seasonal, transportation themed, animals and wildlife, religious and joyful heart themed plus a boatload of other choices. A little exploring and you'll likely discover a theme that appeals to your individual instincts.

Then we have various career motif checks, fantasy themes, cartoons, fine art, geometric, plain checks, watercolors, nature scenes, or animals and pets as well as all the various wildlife causes and various rights cause checks. And there are trains, planes, motorcars boat, and sport team and various sport checks and there is much more.

Environmentally conscious shoppers are often choosing recycled checks for their personalized designs. There is nothing wrong with using recycled paper fiber. Also, the choice of soy-based biodegradable alternative products are available. Many check print manufacturers incorporate these consumer and environmentally friendly options into their offerings.

For many of the specialty check printer manufacturers, all check designs are printed with soy-based ink on recycled 24lb. MICR bond paper. As a check travels through the check clearing system, it passes through machines called reader/sorters that sends a magnetic charge to the check which allows it to read the information contained within the MICR line very quickly. The Federal Reserve and all banks require that checks be printed with MICR toner for ease of processing and soy-based ink is often the friendly choice. Now that's a plus for the environment.

Scientific research conducted by Erhan and Bagby found that the pigment Cartier in 100-percent soy ink degrades almost twice as completely as ink made from soy oil. Even better four-fold increase in results were obtained when compared to standard petroleum inks. The take away is that if you're going to purchase checks in bulk and have them around for long periods of time, consider an oil based ink. Other wise, only purchase a six-month or less inventory supply to have is store.

Recoverable materials through recycling centers are used to produce equal quality virgin fiber. Grass roots labor forces as well as small businesses contribute to the overall effort resulting in quality and price justifiability for print check manufacturing using these alternative resources.

Also, when you buy online direct from a check design printer manufacturer they not only produce great personal bank checks, address labels, contact cards and checkbook covers featuring beautiful inspired designs but charge less than your bank charges, generally about 50% less. And considering no sales tax and faster shipping, ordering online is a terrific bargain!




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