[Nfbwv-talk] Have raised line checks gone the way of thetypewriter?

Wed Jul 13 12:30:40 UTC 2016

Debbi,

I have been thinking about getting the Talking Checkbook Program.  I write very little checks as well and use a spreadsheet to keep track of my transactions and balance my checkbook.  I love the bill pay feature the bank offers as well as the debit card.

Charlene

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Hi, Dave,
I have a rather old lazer printer but I don't know that you'd have to use a lazer printer.  The checks are think parts that take up the whol of an 8 in.-1/2 by 11 in.  page.  I think I had to send a sample check so they'd know what to do about the header information.  I can't say I remember what they cost because I haven't bought in awhile.  But, they are here when I need them; and the program can do a lot of things.  The only thing I use it for, though, is to write my checks.  OK, I'm going to make a public statement here.  I do not balance my checkbook! But, if I did, I could with this program.  Also, at year's end, one can use it to gather all of the information to create to eports for taxes.  I could have more than one account and could really do a lot of things.  I just don't.  All I care about is writing the few checks I have to write.  You can download the program from the website which, of course, I cannot name right here because I can't remember it.  But, Google will get you to the Talking Checkbook program.  If I can tell you anything else, just let me know.

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Hi Debbi!

That sounds perfect for me to follow up.

Guess Google will show me where to get the program, so I'm only curious about one little detail, if you could give me a bit more related info.  What kind of printer do you use for them?

Don't like having to schedule eyes when it can be avoided, so if I can regain that much freedom again, it would be worth investigating.

Glad I brought the subject here.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Dave

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David, I can still order raised line checks from my bank.  I did several months ago.  Like you, I don't use them often, but I do still use them.
Mostly, though, I use the checks that I can put in the printer.
I use
Talking Checkbook and, in their manual, they give the contact information for a check printing company and I usually order from them.  The raised line checks I carry in my purse for those situations when I need a check and I am not near my printer.

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Subject: [Nfbwv-talk] Have raised line checks gone the way of the typewriter?

Hi all!

I guess it ultimately doesn't matter, in a way, because after all, if you could even find a typewriter now, finding a ribbon for it would be a harder accomplishment to achieve.

I can easily add more payees each rare time that I do need to send out a check, but still, old habits die harder than more convenience can be adopted.

While I'm not in danger of running out of checks since I rarely use them here, I am now using the final book that was part of a batch that I bought probably 12 or 13 years ago.  Told you, I don't use them real often here.

Anyway, I phoned the bank a few days ago to try to order new ones and struck a birk wall if not pure ignorance.

Having come from an era now largely unfamiliar today, I use raised line checks.  Some complained back when because they're larger than the bank's typical check, but as all of us oldies know, putting them into a typewriter was pretty much the independence key of our day, before plastic money was widely adopted by the industry, so it was the way we always paid our bills.

Anyway, the nice gal at the bank sounded very intreagued by my description of this legendary product she'd never heard of.  I spose the poor gal thought where did this marcian come from, and probably was relieved when I let her know that I appreciated her willingness to want to be helpful even if I had sent her down a road she'd never travelled.  *lol.

This experience certainly shocked me, so I wondered am I as a valley girl might say "like the last person on earth)  that still used raised line checks? Heck, they even call them "cheques"  over here, so I don't know but I kind of hope I'm not, but I (hope) we still have a typewriter in a closet.
You just never know...

Cheers,
Dave
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