Embossed or not

Hi guys, who has recently had a new card?

I’m wondering if the new cards that are sent are still embossed details or are they nice non-embossed cards?

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Can confirm. My joint card was replaced recently. Was embossed

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For being at the cutting edge of all things banking, it’s the only card I have that is still embossed. :confused:

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I don’t think a card being embossed really defines whether it is cutting edge or not.

Plenty of old cards were in-embossed for various reasons.

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All of my bank cards and credit cards are embossed. I wish they weren’t, I could fit another couple of cards in my card wallet is they were all flat :cry:

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Also depends if people define unembossed as cutting edge.

The unembossed Halifax EasyCash Visa Electron card I held until 2018 was clearly not at the cutting edge of banking.

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Ha I feel all the original joint account cards are doing a round of renewals. I was pestered about mine a month or so ago and lo and behold my partner had to do hers a couple of weeks later! Think we signed up basically the first day they were allowed.
The new card was obviously embossed as said.

FYI - the technical term for “not embossed” is “thermal printed”

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Also, thermal printed gives us a much wider character set (as you don’t need a physical model for each character). As a result, you can have accents and special characters on your name, which isn’t possible with embossed cards.

Another hidden perk of Monzo Plus we should advertise :eyes:

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Fun fact, a few months ago we had someone who legally changed their name to a famous celebrity’s child’s name (I will not attempt to pronounce it) and wanted to have it printed on a card.

Not enclosing the celebrity’s name, but you can probably guess

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That Musk be an unusual request…… :eyes:

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Was it short or Elon-gated?

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Did you manage to do it in the end?

Yes. We printed it. Including the weird Latin Æ

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Unfortunately our card manufacturers don’t support that. What a shame - it would have been revolutionary

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Maybe the next time you put out for tender :thinking:

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Do you support emoji in email addresses by chance?

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You ok there?

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Not after grammar like that, no. Are you sure you didn’t invent the word frauded? :wink::laughing:

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Is there plans to have the numbers on the back of the hot coral card. It’s cleaner and makes my wallets not suffer from having the card Number wear into it :sweat_smile: @arthur-ceccotti

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