Is it legal to print your signature?
I’m assuming it should be, because you could use an X or a bunch of x’s and dots (like Christopher Columbus).
But when I sign for air-delivery packages, they make me use a signature and then print my name.
I’d like to shorten that step and just print my name. It’s as unique as anything else.
Your signature is whatever you say it is. Print it and it’s still legal. (As long as you always print it.) You still have to print it twice for recieving packages . The courier hates having blank spaces on their forms.
You could use a smiley face for your signature if you wanted, but this will cause you lots of trouble.
-Rue.
Printed signatures are legally valid. See The Verdict on Plaintext Signatures: They’re Legal
B Wright, Computer Law and Security Report v 14 no 6 (Nov/Dec 94) pp 311-2 . This case deals mentions the book also as support for a judgement in which no handwritten signature was required on a form submitted by a police officer in a DUI case.
To back up what Rue DeDay wrote,
From the Uniform Commercial Code, Section 1-201, General Definitions.
To find how this was enacted in your state check here.
This means that, in the context of matters covered by the UCC, your signature is what you intend to be your signature.
My wife prints her signature (she never learned cursive writing – they weren’t teaching it in the schools). Hasn’t had too much trouble, though once she had a tax form returned as being unsigned. She pointed out that it was her legal signature and the accepted it.