magnetic ink

British

noun

ink containing particles of a magnetic material used for printing characters for magnetic character recognition

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Coming out next year is a new unit that will print the dollar amount of each check in magnetic ink.

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Each bank will simply have its entries typed up in special magnetic ink.

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The U.S. method, which uses machines that are built by General Electric, National Cash Register and Burroughs Corp. as well as by IBM, electronically "reads" the numbers formed by magnetic ink on the check.

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