This is so typical of Quickbooks.  "I know this is extremely frustrating and burdensome for you users, but we aren't going to fix it because we are a giant megacorporation that makes billions of dollars off of you and feel no need to fix the things that make your life harder".  How hard is it to add a feature where you can click a button to make the memo carry over to the printed check.  This company and it's software sucks.