CheckWorks, Inc. manufactures and sells checks directly to Consumers and through Banks and Credit Unions. CheckWorks is known for Innovation in Check Printing technology and Unique Personal Check Designs at Cheap Prices.
CheckWorks makes it easy and affordable to get designer quality checks at discount prices. We offer every category of check you could ever need-from bank checks to estate and business checks, to checks designed for the visually impaired, checks for laser and inkjet printers, and much more.
Why You Should Be Using CheckWorks: You will receive our lowest possible prices every time you order. No coupon codes required. We give you 30% more checks in every box! We use the Finest quality Security paper and inks available. We take pride in our green initiatives. Checkworks does not outsource any labor to other countries. HOW TO REORDER Place your reorder online like a New order or call 866-870-5918
In 1922, after emigrating from Canada, Aloysius ("Al") J. Uniack established a small business that specialized in providing check-printing services for the banking industry. As a man who valued clarity, Al named his business Bank Printing Company. It was located on Maple Street, near the corner of 9th Street, in the Los Angeles, California financial district. Al drove his Model T Ford up and down the coast of California taking orders for checks from banks for their savings account passbooks, share drafts and other related financial documents. Bank Printing Company established a fine reputation for premier quality checks and check related products. Under Al's direction and dedication, the company grew rapidly.
During the late 1940s, Bank of America wanted to offer checking accounts to all of its depositors. This was unprecedented-in those days, checking accounts were only offered to very large deposit customers. This was because there was no automatic way to sort and route checks back to their originating banks. Checks had to be hand sorted using the fractional routing and transit numbers that still appear today on the upper right hand corner of checks.
Innovation was on the way. Bank of America funded a team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University who worked together and invented the system that is now known as M.I.C.R or "Magnetic Image Character Recognition." This system uses high-speed check reader-sorters, scanners and special numbers printed with magnetic ink along the lower edge of checks.
Bank of America chose Bank Printing Company and one other company to develop the printing press technology to print the new magnetic numbers on bank checks. Bank Printing Company accomplished this task successfully and subsequently received orders from Bank of America for all of its millions of depositors. Bank Printing Company remained Bank of America's contract check printer for decades. As other banks rapidly obtained the new MICR check technology Bank Printing Company was awarded many more bank check contracts nationally. The household checkbook became commonplace.
In 1959, Al Uniack passed away, leaving his three adult sons who continued to run the large family business.
In 1967, as fashion stationery was gaining popularity, Bank Printing Company was the first operation of its kind to introduce more stylish alternatives to plain blue safety checks. Most banks across the country sought out the new designer checks as their depositors were clamoring for them, differentiating Bank Printing Company again as a leader and innovator in the check printing industry.
During the late 1970s, banks started marking-up or retailing checks to their captive checking account customers. At the same time the banks began pressing their captive check printers down on their prices, in order to increase the difference they paid the printer and the amount they charged the depositor. Check printing became a huge profit center for banks and the mark-ups increased. The banks were also beginning to charge fees for all of their services. This has not changed and is growing steadily today.
The Uniack brothers were not pleased with the banks pressuring their company to lower their prices to unreasonable levels while raising their mark-ups to their depositors substantially. They also recognized that consumers were becoming intolerant of these mark-ups but had no alternative but to pay the banks' prices.
In 1986 the world's first direct-to-consumer check printing company was formed-at Bank Printing Company, Inc. Checks were offered directly to consumers at Bank Printing Company's prices and mass-marketed nationally. This new business solved a problem for consumers and was phenomenally successful. Consumers seemed pleased to have a choice and learned that it is perfectly all right to bypass the middleman (the bank). Suddenly, the public could order checks directly from the check company-and order checks cheap. Since 1986 other traditional check printers have followed Bank Printing Company's lead and have formed their own direct-to-consumer divisions.
Today, Bank Printing Company is known as CheckWorks.com. At CheckWorks, we've made it so easy to order bank checks, personal checks, and business checks online. It all adds up to big savings. Check out the benefits of cheap checks online. Check into CheckWorks!