State Bank of India cheques are 202 x 93 mm with boxed date digits, like every other Indian bank's — that is the CTS-2010 standard, not something specific to SBI. What is worth knowing is how SBI's scale shows up in ChequeMaster.

Two SBI-family layouts

ChequeMaster carries the SBI layout plus a separate State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur layout. SBBJ merged into SBI in 2017, but its cheque books stayed in circulation for years afterwards and the design is distinct enough to warrant its own layout.

If you have an older book from a former associate bank, try that layout rather than assuming the current SBI one applies. The same logic covers other merged names in the list — Allahabad Bank, Andhra Bank, Corporation Bank, Syndicate Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce.

State Bank of India cheque layout in ChequeMaster

Getting it printing

  1. Set the amount-in-words unit to lakh and decimal digits to 2 in Settings.
  2. Add a bank account under State Bank of India.
  3. Create a cheque book, choose the SBI layout, and enter the number range from the physical book.
  4. Print one cheque onto plain A4 and hold it against a real leaf up to a light.
  5. Check the date boxes first — that is the field that reveals a left-margin error.

Multiple accounts, one bank

Businesses often run several SBI accounts — a current account, a CC account, maybe one per branch. In ChequeMaster each gets its own bank account record and its own cheque books, all sharing the one SBI layout. Name the books so you can tell them apart at print time: "SBI Current 4471–4520" beats "SBI 1" when there are five of them.

Things to keep clear of

Do not print over the MICR band along the bottom edge, and keep text inside its fields. SBI cheques clear through the same truncation system as everyone else's — a scanned image is what the bank actually reads.