On 6/22/2026 3:34 PM, Daniel70 wrote:

Sure is! I do some volunteering at a local Salvation Army thrift shop
.... and ever time a customer wants to pay by waving their phone over
the Credit Card machine, I think "What would happen if you lost your
phone.".

That's why traditional banks have physical passbooks, and use permanent
ink instead of thermal printing. And impact printers are used to print
numbers on them. :)

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On 22/06/2026 12:01, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

That's why traditional banks have physical passbooks, and use permanent
ink instead of thermal printing. And impact printers are used to print numbers on them. ?

Not where I live. There are no passbooks, and permanent ink isn't
necessary. Everything is digital these days. Customers need to keep
track of their own bank records, as banks won't be able to help them
locate lost or dormant accounts.





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On 06/22/2026 7:01 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/22/2026 3:34 PM, Daniel70 wrote:

That's why traditional banks have physical passbooks, and use permanent
ink instead of thermal printing. And impact printers are used to print numbers on them. :)

No, they don't.
Fyi...your reply was to person in a time zone where traditional banks
no longer offer or have phased out use of or discontinued updating
previous issued 'physical passbooks'

Same for this reply's timezone with the exception of a few and rare
regional and local only banks(non-traditional)


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On 2026-06-23 06:55, ....winston wrote:

On 06/22/2026 7:01 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 6/22/2026 3:34 PM, Daniel70 wrote:

That's why traditional banks have physical passbooks, and use
permanent ink instead of thermal printing. And impact printers are
used to print numbers on them. :)

No, they don't.
ÿFyi...your reply was to person in a time zone where traditional banks
no longer offer or have phased out use of or discontinued updating
previous issued 'physical passbooks'

ÿSame for this reply's timezone with the exception of a few and rare regional and local only banks(non-traditional)

I have not seen banks using thermal paper here. Maybe the cash machines
on the wall, but I don't think so.

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On 2026-06-23 11:19, Andy Burns wrote:

"Carlos E. R." wrote:

I have not seen banks using thermal paper here. Maybe the cash
machines on the wall, but I don't think so.

The self-service machines inside the bank which can scan a bunch of
cheques into your account prints mini copies of them on thermal roll,
along with the OCR'ed values (wrong about 10% of the time)

Ah... :-D

We don't use cheques here :-)

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On 2026-06-23 12:16, Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E. R. wrote:

We don't use cheques here ?

I try to avoid them, but some govt department send out refunds that way,
and companies when selling shares of deceased relatives.

We only have bank cheques, guaranteed by the bank. Used for things like purchasing a house.

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On 6/23/2026 10:09 PM, Daniel70 wrote:

Australian Banks stopped cheques about 18 months ago. Previously I had
been giving Nieces/Nephew cheques for Christmas. Last year it was EFT or nothing .... well, I guess I could have given bundles of Notes but went
the safe way.

Permanent ink on permanent paper is more physical & tangible than a
computer screen of numbers and letters. :)

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