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CHECKPRO Printer Compatibility Guide

CHECKPRO and LOANPRO use UnForm from Synergetic Data Systems to process laser forms such as contract documents and other laser forms. UnForm requires PCL5 compatible laser printers in order to print from CHECKPRO or LOANPRO correctly (*see below).

While many printers meet this criteria, Hewlett Packard has discontinued providing PCL fonts in most of their small to mid range PCL compatible printers (thus relying on Windows to provide the fonts). Since CHECKPRO and LOANPRO are not Windows based applications, these printers will not print correctly.

  • Host-based (or GDI printers) DO NOT WORK with CHECKPRO or LOANPRO.
We recommend the following printers for printing contracts from CHECKPRO or LOANPRO:

From SDSI's Support Page

UnForm produces PCL5 print streams by default. In addition, UnForm 7 can produce PostScript print streams with the "-p ps" command line option. When looking for a compatible printer, look at the printer specifications for supported print languages.

  • A specification of PCL5, PCL5e, or PCL5c, coupled with a mention of PCL fonts, is a good indication that the printer will be compatible with all versions of UnForm. Unfortunately, not all printers that support PCL5 include PCL fonts. Without such fonts, all text output produced by UnForm is rendered in Courier and is not scaled. Therefore, verify that the specifications mention PCL fonts, or at least verify the printer is returnable if it turns out not to handle PCL fonts.
  • A mention of PostScript 2 or higher indicates compatibility with UnForm 7. (CheckPro does not support PostScript).
  • A specification of PCL6 does not indicate PCL5 support, as PCL6 is a poorly named, entirely different, print language that is not compatible with UnForm's PCL5 output.
  • If no print languages are mentioned in the specification, the printer is probably a host-based (also called GDI) printer. This type of printer has no capability to render print streams, and is incompatible with any form of UnForm output.

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