Card delivery, imprint of card details (white ink) left on packaging

[Chapuys (Kevyn)]

This is what I posted in a previous thread on the matter.

@Chapuys

@JeffHemmen

[…] I have seen a card with the card number etc. etched in once, which was thus as thick as a normal card. The card was marked as ‘electronic use only’ or something, but it worked perfectly well on an everyday basis. […]

I had one of these with Halifax when I was a teenager with their Visa Electron card. Non-embossed with an etched printed card number with the words ‘ELECTRONIC USE ONLY’.

The problem I had with the etched printed cards instead of the embossed ones was that the numbers would rub off/fade over time and become nearly illegible. I still have the account (although I don’t use it) and the numbers still rub/fade off. You can tilt it to the light to see the extremely subtle etching when they printed it but embossed is so much easier and clearer to read when it fades.

I have since found the card, issued in just over a year, and it still rubs off.