When Did You Stop Using Bank Checks?

All of us who stopped getting our checks from the bank probably have our own reasons for ditching the standard fare in favor of personalized stuff.  Even if you’d rather opt for the typical-looking bank checks without any fancy designs, it still makes better sense not to get them from your branch. When did you [...]

Personal Checks That Look To Make A Difference

If you don’t care much for the novelty of personalized checks, it may be premature to abandon it entirely.  After all, personal designer checks are finding increasing use as a way to make a difference in society. Do you have personal beliefs that you want to further?  If you want to help spread the word [...]

Recycled Personal Checks: The Responsible Choice

With the growing concern over the environment, it’s not unusual for more and more people to demand recycled products over ones that require using up even more of our natural resources.  If they’re going to do the job just as well, anyway, why choose any other? When you use recycled personalized checks, you save on [...]

Personalized Checks: When Generic Just Isn't Good Enough

Bank checks are so generic in their appearance that it’s often difficult to tell one apart from the other.  With standard patterns, backgrounds and colors, you might as well use a blank sheets of white paper – there’s so little to tell them apart. Not that it’s bad, though.  Checks are intended for economic exchanges [...]

Why You Want A Personal Check

Stock bank checks can do the job quite nicely on their own.  That’s what I always told folks who kept encouraging me to order my own set of custom-designed bank drafts.  Eventually, though, I saw the folly in that and now order a fresh batch almost every month. Why bother with a personalized check?  Let [...]

Bring Good Luck With Your Personal Checks

Whether you believe in superstitions or not, good luck charms do make a nice theme for your personalized check designs.  More than being a cute accessory, it might leave you in a positive state of mind every time you draw from your checkbook .  If you play your cards right, it might even help bring [...]

Giving Personal Checks As Memorable Gifts

I remember when I issued a photo check to pay my aunt for a loan.  The check had a  colorful picture of me, my wife and our three kids on the background.  She called me up and told me she didn’t want to encash the check because the picture of us looked so good.  I [...]

Fun Personal Checks For Fun Businesses

Classic and formal designer checks usually work best for businesses, in contrast to the funky personal styles we often see offered by private order printers.  It tells those you’re issuing the checks to that you’re serious and that being perceived as a professional organization is an important concern. While that may be true for traditional [...]

Let Your Checks Put A Smile On Your Face

I wasn’t a big fan of personalized checks until a year ago.  While I’ve had some Disney checks and other similarly-designed instruments issued my way, I always found them a bit cheesy, if not inappropriate. My wife, however, began to develop an affinity for them.  In fact, she ordered several booklets worth of checks with [...]

Personal Checks That Stand Out

Checks are so boring.  No matter who you’re banking with, the checks they have on stock look just like everybody else’s.  Of course, they’re financial instruments so they just need to be functional to do their job.Still, while they aren’t meant to entertain, bank checks don’t exactly need to be that sordid either. That’s why [...]

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