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All my payment cards have raised numbers. And I saw an old card imprint thingo at an op shop (thrift store), slight rusty but seemed to still seemed to work.
by TheSpiceIsLife 2y ago
All my payment cards have raised numbers.
And I saw an old card imprint thingo at an op shop (thrift store), slight rusty but seemed to still seemed to work.
- lxgr 2y agoInteresting, would you mind sharing what country that is? I have only a single card with raised/embossed numbers, and that's somewhat ironically a pre-tax transit benefit card, i.e. the least likely of any I own to ever be used in a carbon imprinter.
- vladvasiliu 2y agoIn France, all my credit cards except the very last one have raised numbers. The last one with raised numbers was delivered to me in 2024. The one without came a few months later, from the same bank. It also has the number on the back, right next to the static CVC. I guess security is indeed their top priority. Anecdotally, all the credit cards I've had started to have the paint rub off the embossed number fairly quickly, rendering it very difficult to read. The other text on them didn't have this issue.
- lxgr 2y agoMost of my cards look like that these days. Arguably it's a wash for security: Yes, you can take a single photo of all the card details if the CVC is on the same side as the number and expiry, but on the other hand, there's nothing of value on the front now, which helps with people taking photos of their cards and posting them on social media. And I agree, the paint rubbing off is extremely annoying, and even worse when it's metallic paint, flakes of which have a habit of deeply embedding themselves in all kinds of leather and fabric materials. That, and the fact that you can't fit as many of them in a "card-only wallet", makes me not want to carry any of them anymore.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoAustralia, info in profile