Draft Creator Bank Draft Software

Draft Creator Software allows US and Canadian home businesses, small businesses and webmasters to E-Commerce enable their websites, without merchant accounts, for less than $100 by accepting a bank draft online as an alternative to credit cards.

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If you need technical support for Draft Creator, please look through the list of common problems and solutions below. All reported problems are documented here.  

• Common printing problems
• The last character of the routing, transit or account number is not printing
• MICR font is not detected when starting the program
• MICR font is not printing on checks properly
• Runtime error 50003 when trying to print
• Printer error message occurs when starting the program
• Cannot print to a network printer
• Words on screen look too big - improper formatting
• Checks are printing in italics
• Bank is rejecting checks
• Setup errors - Application does not complete install process
• Restore problems - After a hard drive replacement or crash, Draft Creator is restored from a backup but does not function correctly or gives errors.
• Other problems that are not listed here

MICR Font Problems

Step 1: If you just installed the program using Windows 95 or Windows NT and did not perform a proper shutdown for your PC before rebooting it, you may need to install the MICR font again. Choose Start - Settings - Control Panel - Fonts. Double click on the MICR 65 font and make sure it states "Copyright IDAutomation.com, Inc." If it does not exist, follow the procedure below to install the  font:

• Click on Start, Select settings and click on Control Panel.
• Click on Fonts, click on File in your main tool bar, select Install New Font.
• Select the folder where you installed Draft Creator, this is usually a folder in C:\Program Files.
• The MICR font will appear and look like this: MICR 65 (true type) - select this font and click on OK.
• Click Start and choose to shut down and restart your computer.
• The font should be active when you restart your computer.

Step 2: If you are using a version of Draft Creator older than version 7.0, install the new Draft Creator from our download site. Version 7.0 has a new and improved font that works better with some printers that have had problems.

Step 3: To properly print the MICR line on checks, your PC may need to be setup to print True Type fonts as graphics to your printer. To do this, click Start - Settings - Printers. Select your printer, choose Printer - Properties, choose options to make sure "Print True Type as graphics" is selected; look in the the Font or Graphics folders for these settings. You may also have to change the print mode to "raster." If these options are not present in your printer properties, try a few of the other settings such as "download True Type as bitmap soft fonts".

Step 4 - Try using another compatible print driver: The "MICR font not detected" error will occur on some print drivers (such as the HP LaserJet 5 SI printer driver) that are unable to print the MICR font properly. Some other print drivers will cause this error to appear, however, the printer will print checks and drafts without problems. In this case, just click OK to bypass this screen and use the program. To fix this problem for the HP Laserjet 5 SI, install the HP LaserJet III driver on the port connected to the 5 SI printer and make it your default printer. This appears to be a bug in the driver from HP, they may have an updated driver on the Internet by now that you can download and install.

Step 5 - Reinstall your print driver by the following method. 

1. Obtain new print driver files from the your printer vendor if they are available.
2. Choose Start - Settings - Printers. Delete your printer.
3. Restart your computer.
4. Choose Start - Settings - Printers. Add your printer or follow instructions provided by your printer vendor.
5. Restart your computer.  Try printing again.

The last character of the routing, transit or account number is not printing at the bottom of the checks

This problem can usually be solved by removing Draft Creator via add/remove programs in control panel and reinstalling the new version 7.0 software.  If you try this and the problem persists, follow the procedures for MICR Font Problems above.

Common Printing Problems

NOTE: The printer properties dialog box may include options for number of copies, landscape, portrait print, etc. These options should be set to default settings which should be 1 copy, portrait orientation and letter size paper.

Verify you can print from other applications such as Notepad or Wordpad.  If you are unable to print from other applications you will not be able to print from Draft Creator either and the problem is not with Draft Creator.

Make sure you are printing on check stock that is 88mm in length. This is the check length of most standard letter size 3-up check stock. Deselect the 88mm check box if you are printing on check stock that is 92mm in length or on plain paper and you want to print exactly 3 checks per page. By printing exactly 3 checks per page, you only need to make two cuts in the paper for every 3 checks printed. NOTE: If your printer has problems printing the last check you will have to use the standard printing method. Some printers do not have a printable area large enough to print the last check if using the 92mm check length. Most LaserJet printers can print the last check while most ink jet and bubble jet printers cannot. If your printer cannot print the last check, the printer will usually print this information on the next page or give you an error. To get around this, choose the Align Printer button in the print menu and try decreasing the Vertical Start Position Number. As a last resort, choose the option to print only 2 checks per page.

Also be sure the check stock is in the printer properly. The stock should be in the printer so that the first three checks are fed through the printer before the small perforation tab at the bottom of the check stock.

If you are still having printing problems, try the suggestions for MICR font problems. 

Runtime error 50003 when trying to print

This error message is from a corrupted version of the Draft Creator distribution file. The corrupted version was distributed in January, 1999 and has since been corrected. To correct the problem, please download the latest version of Draft Creator and reinstall.

Printer error occurs when starting the program

This error occurs when you do not have a printer installed that supports True Type fonts. Install the correct print driver for your printer or obtain a newer print driver for your printer.

Cannot print to a network printer

If you are printing to a printer that is not attached directly to your PC, you may have to capture the LPT1 port. In Windows 95, click Start - Settings - Printers. Under printer properties, select Capture Port, type in the network path to the printer and select LPT1 for the "print to the following port" selection.

Words on the screen are too big
Printed checks are in italics
Printed information does not fit on the check

This can occur if you do not have the "Times New Roman" True Type font installed properly. Open up control panel and install the Times New Roman True Type fonts. Make sure you have all four types of the fonts installed. You should have Times New Roman, Times New Roman Bold, Times New Roman Italic, and Times New Roman Bold Italic. These files come standard with Windows and are required by Draft Creator to properly display and print text.

Bank is rejecting checks

Either the bank notifies you of problems reading the MICR line of printed checks or the checks com back from the bank with an additional strip attached to the bottom of the check indicating that the information had to be re-entered and printed again to process. Check the following:

• Verify the correct horizontal and vertical placement of the MICR line at the bottom of the checks.  Follow the procedures in the Printer Control Panel, get there by choosing Print from the menu and choose Align Printer.
• If alignment is correct, verify that you are printing with MICR toner. Most banks now use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the MICR font line on checks and regular laser toner is somewhat magnetic, but to be on the safe side you should use MICR toner if your checks are being rejected.

Setup errors

If the setup program does not properly install Draft Creator try the following:

1. Install Winzip on your PC.  Start Winzip and open DraftCreator.exe.  Choose to Extract all files to c:\dc.  Then run setup.exe from the c:\dc directory. 
2. You can also try installing Draft Creator on another PC.  If it installs properly on one PC and not on the other, the problem could be a corrupted registry, corrupted Windows directory or a damaged DLL file in the \Windows\System directory.  A reinstallation of Windows may be necessary.

After a hard drive replacement or crash, Draft Creator is restored from a backup but does not function correctly or gives errors.

You have to reinstall with the latest version 7.0 because several files are needed that are stored in the Windows System directory that are not usually backed up.  After a fresh install, you only need to copy the data files to the new Draft Creator directory.  These files can be easily identified because they have the .mdb extension.

All other problems

For all other problems try reinstalling Draft Creator.  Go to Start - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs and choose to Remove Draft Creator.  If asked to Keep or Remove files, choose Remove.  Reboot, download the latest version and reinstall. After a fresh install, you only need to copy the data files to the new Draft Creator directory. These files can be easily identified because they have the .mdb file extension.

If a reinstall does not work:

All reported problems are documented in this on-line technical support document. If you are having other problems not mentioned here they are probably unique to your PC.  You can determine this by installing Draft Creator on another PC.  If it installs and runs properly on one PC and not on the other, the problem is usually with the PC and not the Draft Creator program, even if other applications seem to function normally. This is because the Draft Creator program uses your PC in ways that other programs do not. The problem could be any of the following:

• Hardware problem
• Hard drive problem
• Corrupted registry files
• Corrupted Windows directory
• Damaged DLL file in the \Windows\System directory
• Viruses
• Some other odd PC problem

Draft Creator technical support will be unable to assist you in solving these types of problems. Some of these problems can be corrected by reinstalling Windows.  Support to resolve these problems should be obtained from your PC vendor or Microsoft.

If you are having the same problem on more than one PC (eliminating the possibility that there is something wrong with one PC), please contact OPI at draftability@yahoo.com for technical support.  Please allow up to 2 business days for a response due to the heavy volume of email we receive.

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