Printing checks

[HMECos]

Printer requires the last check# to be put in the tray face down, then the 2nd to the last check # face down, so on and so forth until the first check # is face down on the top.  Is there a set up to change how the checks are fed?

[dansdaduk]

You are presumably currently loading the checks like this:

but would like to be able to load them like this: 

[dansdaduk]

The problem is that the first side to be printed is often the underside of the loaded sheets.

This is why, on many LaserJet printers, 'sided' paper (like Letterhead or Preprinted or Punched) usually has to be loaded in different ways according to whether the expected print job is printing in Simplex or Duplex mode.

So, for example, on some printers Letterhead paper might be loaded:

• Face up, with top-edge toward the right for Simplex prints.
• Face down, with top-edge toward the left for Duplex prints; the rear face is printed first.

 ... or it might be the other way round - depends on the paper feed mechanism used by different printer models.

Knowing this suggests a rather 'cluncky' circumvention:

• Edit your source document to place a blank page after every cheque.
• Print the document, specifying a duplex (two-sided) print.

[dansdaduk]

However, many printers now support an option referred to as Alternative Letterhead Mode.

With this option enabled:

• 'Sided' paper is always loaded as for Duplex printing.
• On the printer, the relevant tray must be configured to set the loaded paper type as Letterhead (or Prepunched?)
• The print job should, in the preferences, specify ALM and also set the required paper type as Letterhead (or Prepunched?).
• In these circumstances, with a Simplex job, the printer will automatically generate a blank rear face (which is probably the one that is printed first); the slight downside is that the throughput of such jobs will be reduced.

I would think that your LaserJet M604 probably supports ALM.

[dansdaduk]

Having said all that, the User Guide manual for the LaserJet M604, M605, M606 models shows:

but does not appear to mention Alternative Letterhead Mode, so perhaps it is not supported?