micr (magnetic ink character recognition) strips are used by banking industry to automate check processing. it was invented around 1950s. the characters can be recognized in two ways: magnetic recognition and optical recognition. through the special character design, each character generates unique signal to the micr reader, making the reading very fast and accurate. to satisfy printing requirements, magnetic ink has to be employed to print checks. morovia micr cmc-7 font follows the most recent iso standard 1004 1995(e) when printed at point size 12. each character can have four different sizes, as defined in the standard. the character set consists of ten numeric characters, five special symbols and 26 alpha characters (a-z). the standard is used by many countries, including france,  mexico, spain, brazil and japan. morovia micr cmc-7 font package consists of 4 different sizes of micr cmc-7 true type fonts, as defined in iso1004 standard. the font package consists of all characters, not just numbers and punctuation symbols.