Adecco Group selects Source Technologies for quality MICR toner and MICR check printers

Adecco chose Source Technologies' MICR printers because...

• Source Technologies MICR toner solved the quality problems they were experiencing with remanufactured toner cartridges
• Source Technologies MICR laser printers gave them high-quality check printing and better security
• Source Technologies cut Adecco's check printing costs and delivered a dependable way to print checks on-demand in over 1,300 locations.

As the world's largest staffing company with 6,000 offices in 71 territories, Adecco provides the services of temporary and full-time clerical, industrial, and technical associates to a variety of industries. They help make hundreds of thousands of clients and around four million temporary employees successful each year.

On any given day, Adecco has on payroll an average of 700,000 employees. Because of the temporary nature of the work, these employees need their checks each week and Direct Deposit is seldom an option. With so many checks produced weekly, Adecco needs a reliable, quality MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) check printing system that they can trust.

For some time, Adecco had been using remanufactured MICR toner cartridges for check printing. A remanufactured cartridge is a regular (non-MICR) toner cartridge that has been depleted of the original toner and then refilled with toner formulated for MICR printing. While cheaper than using original MICR cartridges, they can pose several problems for the user:

• The formulation can result in a high number of check refusals by banks because the MICR line does not "read" properly.
• The formula could be too abrasive, causing premature failure of the fuser-an expensive item to replace and in some cases, a warranty-voiding event.
• Leakage is also a problem with remanufactured cartridges, resulting in poor quality printing and readability problems, as well as maintenance and printer-life issues.

Adecco's cartridge supplier made numerous attempts to correct these problems without success. With laser printers outputting hundreds-of-thousands of checks in over 1,300 locations, they needed to solve the problem quickly.

Adecco turned to Source Technologies to solve the problem. Adecco began using ST brand MICR toner in their existing printers and the problems disappeared. When it came time to replace the printers, they choose Source Technologies MICR laser printers, which gave them the most dependable MICR check printing solution available, including excellent security and Source Technologies' exclusive MICR print quality guarantee.