Problem: Paying vendors and rebates required county to outsource check printing. Solution: Secure check printers. Jurisdiction: Palm Beach County, Fla. Vendors: Xerox ...
The decline of the check-printing business started when electronic payments began displacing paper checks 25 years ago. The Federal Reserve's network of check-processing centers shrank from 45 to just ...
The use of financial checks dates back to the 11th century, when a merchant in the city of Basra (present-day Iraq) sent written instructions to his bank, ordering the institution to make a payment ...