Manual Imprint

[Elisabet Schwartzkopf]

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Soft UV-NIL is an excellent method to replicate nano patterns with a flexible soft working stamp on different kinds of substrates. Those patterns can either be used in permanent applications or can be transferred via different etching techniques into the corresponding substrate. Besides traditional hard working stamps (such as OrmoStamp), those soft and flexible stamps find use in more and more industrial processes. Their advantages are:

The shown UV-NIL resist mr-NIL210 shows excellent compatibility to PDMS-based working stamps and outstanding film forming, as wells as pattern transfer properties. mr-NIL210, as other UV-NIL resists are used in different applications fields such as:

This video should function as a prototyping demo how easy it is to perform a manual imprint using the mr-NIL210 in a most simple experimental setup. With this straight forward approach, everyone can achieve a full patterned surface within minutes.

micro resist technology is a single entry point for specialty chemicals used in micro and nano manufacturing in Europe. The portfolio of in-house products is complemented by the strategic sales of associated products that are manufactured by our international partners. Here we act as a high-service distributor and offer European medium-sized companies a wide range of complementary products from a single source, which can be used for both established and innovative production and manufacturing processes.

Dry films are ready-to-use polymer films as laminate foil with a high accuracy of the film thickness and excellent adhesion behaviour on various substrates. They are very simple in handling, photo-structurable and both as cut sheets and as roll material available.

micro resist technology offers a broad portfolio of UV-curable hybrid polymer products for micro-optical applications. Their excellent optical transparency and high thermal stability makes them perfectly suitable for the production of polymer-based optical components and waveguides. The main fields of application are micro lenses, diffractive optical elements (DOE), gratings, and single-mode or multi-mode waveguides.

Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) is a straight forward, low cost, and high throughput capable technology for the fabrication of nanometer scaled patterns. Main application fields are photonics, next generation electronics, as well as bio- and sensor applications.

micro resist technology GmbH has provided tailor-made resist formulations for nanoimprint lithography (NIL) since 1999. The unique key features of our products are outstanding film forming and imprinting performance beside excellent pattern fidelity and plasma etch stability. Besides our highly innovative material developments in close contact to industrial needs, our strength is the ability to adjust our materials in film thickness as well as addressing certain needs of the specific use cases within the formulation. Our nanoimprint resists are mostly applied as an etch mask for pattern transfer into various substrates, like Si, SiO2, Al or sapphire.

Our portfolio covers materials for the classical thermal NIL (T-NIL), in which a thermoplastic polymer is used, as well as UV-NIL, in which a liquid formulation is photo crosslinked upon photo exposure. With our technological expertise and know-how we are able to find the right material for your process and applications. Please contact us for your technical support!

Using an imprinter to take a manual imprint of a card provides proof that the card was present at the time of sale. Merchants are often requested to provide an imprint of the card in the event of a chargeback dispute. Press 'Enter' on the terminal to proceed to the next step.

Since the birth of the credit cards in the 1960's, the cards have on it the card number, expiration date and cardholder name in embossed (raised letters) on the surface of the card. The imprinter was developed to be used to imprint credit card information on the charge slips from those raised characters. For many years, these slips were then deposited into the merchant's bank account like checks for every transaction. Today, the credit cards equipped with a magnetic stripe. The card is swiped through electronic devices that read and transmit the card information to processing centers for verification and sale authorization.

Processing credit cards electronically is now standardized. Last year Visa Cards announced that they were going to phase out the embossed card and exchange it with a flat card with the information printed on it and the only is accessible through the magnetic stripe on the back. Other card companies such as MasterCard will follow suit shortly.

There are still a few merchants that still use imprints for credit card purchase. This is mostly done to verify that the physical card has been presented to the merchant during the transaction, in order to prevent fraudulent chargebacks.

With the Visa Electron flat card no imprint can be taken. The new standard is to swipe the card through a terminal whether it is a terminal is a store, cash register/ point of sale system, or wireless terminals for payment.

If business takes orders by telephone, mail or manually keying credit card numbers, transactions are processed as on-qualified transactions at a rate more than double your basic rate, due to risk of fraud by the card not being physically present.

Card imprints are not safeguard against fraud, because any criminal can create phony credit cards. Using an Addressograph machine, the thief embosses the stolen credit card numbers onto there phony credit card. However, encoding a magnetic stripe on the back is almost near impossible to counterfeit. The magnetic stripe not only contains the card number but other coding information which, when swiped through a terminal, verifies to the bank that the actual card is present.

Terminals which include a printer so card holders can get a signed receipt after the transaction is put through and authorized, and then prints a second receipt copy for the customer. Just as if the customer had been physically in your store.

Damages and issues

Please inspect your order upon reception and contact us immediately if the item is defective, damaged or if you receive the wrong item, so that we can evaluate the issue and make it right.

Exceptions / non-returnable items

Certain types of items cannot be returned, like perishable goods (such as food, flowers, or plants), custom products (such as special orders or personalized items), and personal care goods (such as beauty products). We also do not accept returns for hazardous materials, flammable liquids, or gases. Please get in touch if you have questions or concerns about your specific item.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns on sale items or gift cards.

A credit card imprinter, colloquially known as a ZipZap machine, click-clack machine or Knuckle Buster, is a manual device that was used by merchants to record credit card transactions before the advent of payment terminals.[1]

These devices were used from the advent of payment cards in the 1960 until the 1980s-1990s when electronic payment terminals started to replace them. They continued to be used well into the 2000s for places where network access was difficult, such as mobile locations like taxis and airplanes, or as a backup system in case of payment terminal failure.[3]

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Credit card imprinters are joining the ever-expanding ranks of technologically obsolete or nearly obsolete items, such as cassettes and DVDs, landline telephones and film cameras. While still used by some small businesses, the manual device is challenging to maintain and time-consuming to store critical financial transactions.

For starters, if you are younger than 20 years old, chances are pretty good that you have never even seen a credit card imprinting machine. Chances are also high that you probably never will (except maybe at the random antique shop or flea market).

A credit card imprinter known as a knuckle-buster, zip-zap machine or click-clack machine is a manual device for recording credit card transactions using a carbon copy sales slip. Merchants used credit card imprinters before the widespread use of payment terminals made them virtually obsolete.

A credit card imprinter is a nonelectronic, manually operated machine that makes an imprint (hence the name) of the face of your credit card and transfers it onto a double receipt. Once an imprint of your credit card is accomplished, you sign it and the proprietor or shopkeeper rips the perforated edge, keeps the original (top) copy and gives you the imprinted (bottom) copy.

The best credit card processing services now offer a host of hardware that makes it easy to accept payments. Credit card terminals exist for swipe cards, EMV chip cards and near-field communication tap cards. All of these devices can print out receipts easily for customers.

A POS system is a big upgrade over an imprinter. Not only can you use it to accept credit cards and debit cards, but the best POS systems have added features like inventory management, employee management and integration with top accounting software.

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