One of the key contributions of addressograph technology in its early days was to reduce credit card fraud.

Card owners would deny that they dined—-whereas merchants notoriously would add charges to cards even if patrons never visited their stores.

There are lots of layers and history in this part of fintech fraud cycle.

Comes the addressograph POS imprinter where it would take a “copy” of your card numbers and have you sign it!

Aside, credit card history and evolution using is just amazing.