Printing on Special Stationery

Payment documents and statements often need to be printed on preprinted stationery, for example remittance advices, cheques and statements. When this is the case there are a number of additional printing techniques you may need to use.

Note:  Many of the following print options may be preset by the document format using Document Format (DFS).

Aligning Stationery

When you are printing onto preprinted stationery it is important that the paper is positioned correctly in the printer. This is to ensure the details are printed in the correct place on the stationery, for example if the cheque value is printed in words within preprinted value boxes.

You can use the Print Test Page option in the document format report parameters form to print a test page. This page contains a series of XXXs wherever information would normally be printed for the appropriate payment document. This allows you to ensure the details appear in the correct place on the paper.

After a test page has been produced, the document format report parameters form reappears with the default settings. You can adjust the stationery as necessary and repeat the process, until the alignment is correct.

When you are satisfied, you should select the normal print options.

Assigning Pre-Printed Reference Numbers

If your special stationery includes a pre-printed reference number, for example cheque numbers, you can use this number as the payment reference on the payment transactions generated.

Reprinting Payment Documents

You can reprint all, or some, of your remittance advices and cheques as many times as you want, until the next Payment Run with the appropriate payment run rule.