Rosetta Check Intelligence presents

The Bottom Line

A short animated series about how checks really work, starring Chuck the check. Every episode takes one question, answers it in a few minutes, and sends you off knowing more about the line at the bottom of every check than most people ever will.

Coming soon

Season 1 in production Short animated episodes Free to watch
Meet the cast Episode guide
The Bottom Line key art: Chuck the check, Mark the MICR toner cartridge and the E-13B crew on a television stage
In production
The cast

Meet the stars of the check system

Every character is a real part of how a check gets printed and paid.

Star Chuck the check, a business check, from The Bottom Line

Chuck the check

Plays: A business check

Chuck is a business check with a MICR line along his bottom edge and one goal: reach the paying bank and clear.

Co-star Mark, a MICR toner cartridge, from The Bottom Line

Mark

Plays: A MICR toner cartridge

Mark carries the iron oxide toner that gives Chuck's MICR line its magnetic signal. He joins the show in Episode 2.

Ensemble The E-13B crew, the MICR characters, from The Bottom Line

The E-13B crew

Plays: The MICR characters

The fourteen characters of the E-13B font, ten digits and four symbols. They ride along the bottom of every check, and every reader/sorter on the way reads them.

Episode guide

Season 1

Still from The Bottom Line, How checks clear
Season 1, Episode 1

How checks clear

Chuck makes his first trip through the banking system, from the printer to the paying bank.

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Still from The Bottom Line, Why is the ink magnetic?
Season 1, Episode 2

Why is the ink magnetic?

Mark shows Chuck why the MICR line is printed in magnetic toner, and what a reader/sorter feels for.

Coming soon
Season 1, Episode 3

Next episode

The next story is in the writers room.

In development
While you wait for the premiere

The same story, in writing

What is MICR?

Why the characters on Chuck's bottom edge look the way they do.

The MICR line on a check

Every field the E-13B crew carries, read left to right.

ProMark™ MICR toner

The toner behind the magnetic signal on every check.
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