60 the edge 25 of deck plate 26 has a trapezoidally shaped form set corner gauge 55 attached opposite to the edge of credit card holder plate 44 furthest from date printer opening 32 a substantially flat form set corner gauge 50 is attached to edge 25 opposite to date printer opening 32 corner gauges 55 and 50 serve to guide and hold the form set to be imprinted corner gauges 55 and 50 may be of plastic and attached to deck plate 26 date printer 35 protruding through date printer opening 32 comprises preferably four or six circular date wheels 33 mounted on date printer shaft 35 set in date printer case 34 see fig2 each date wheel 33 has raised digits from 0 to 9 on its rim each date wheel 33 is rotatable about shaft 36 so that the date may be set by hand the ends of bolts 39 are press fitted into the extrusion deck plate 26 a coil spring is positioned around each bolt shaft and the coil springs urge the free floating date frame against the adjusting nuts 38 the nuts 38 may be turned to adjust the date frame toward or away from the bottom face of the extrusion deck plate 26 the date printer is adjusted so that its raised characters are at the same height as the embossed characters of the credit card or merchant plate each date wheel 33 has on its side a plurality of gear.