It appears that the ability to print the check in the middle position has NOT been fixed, despite years of responses that Quickbooks programmers have been notified of the demand for this feature.  There was obviously no intent to even consider doing this minor modification to the program, but only the intent to mollify upset users in the moment.

I guess you get what you pay for.  If you purchase a low-end, minimal feature accounting program, you end up with a low-end, minimal feature accounting program (& programmers).  It's amazing to me that the same company, Intuit, who sells TurboTax, a top of the line tax preparation program, also sells QuickBooks, a bottom of the line accounting program.  Whoever manages the TurboTax software development needs to get a big raise and be placed as the executive over both developer groups.