Printing cheques one at a time is fine for two or three. For payroll, a supplier run, or a set of post-dated rent cheques, it is a lot of repeated clicking. Bulk printing lets you prepare a run and send the whole thing to the printer in one pass.

How it works

  1. Load the cheque leaves into the printer in cheque-number order, matching the order in the book.
  2. Open the cheque book you are printing from.
  3. Enter the details for each cheque in the run — payee, amount, date.
  4. Start the batch print.

Each cheque is saved against its own number as it prints, exactly as with single printing, so your reports stay accurate afterwards.

Get the paper order right

This is where bulk printing goes wrong, and it is worth being deliberate about. The software prints in cheque-number sequence; it has no way to know what is physically in the tray. If leaf 150347 is sitting where the printer expects 150345, you will get two cheques with the wrong numbers printed on them and a record that disagrees with the paper.

Do a dry run on plain paper first. Print the batch onto blank A4, check the sequence reads the way you expect, and only then load real cheques. On a run of thirty cheques this takes a minute and can save you a whole book.

Practical limits

  • Feed a manageable stack. Cheque leaves are smaller and often stiffer than A4, and most trays misfeed if you overfill them. Smaller batches, more often, is the reliable approach.
  • Stay with the printer. A misfeed halfway through a batch is much cheaper to catch immediately than to discover at the end.
  • Check alignment on the first cheque of a run rather than trusting last week's settings, especially if anyone else has used the printer since.

If a cheque in the batch comes out wrong

You do not need to redo the run. Any individual cheque can be edited and reprinted, and the record updates with it — so a single misprint is a single fix, not a restart. See printing a cheque for the edit-and-reprint flow.

Bulk Cheque Printing was released as a BETA feature. It works, and people use it in production, but it has had less real-world mileage than single-cheque printing. Test it on plain paper before your first live run, and if something behaves unexpectedly please tell us — that feedback is what moves it out of beta.