View Full Version : Can you copy money?
Steve
10-01-2004, 02:32 PM
Well sure you can, right? Just slap it on the copier and press the start button, what's to stop you?
How about your copier (http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/01/copying.dollars.ap/index.html)? And your scanner. And your camera.
I'm guessing that the technology involves the creation of unique moire patterns in the scanned image that identifies the scan as money. All those fine little "spiderweb" lines engraved on money would suit that purpose nicely.
SixofNine
10-01-2004, 02:40 PM
I haven't studied the issue that closely, but aren't the new versions that have come out supposed to make it harder to counterfeit via photocopy, even when you exclude that security strip?
Brian
Steve
10-01-2004, 03:06 PM
The microprinting isn't supposed to be replicable by current digital imaging technologies but that microcoding feature is several years old now. I'm pretty certain digital resolution has improved exponentially over the last several years. 'Course, they could have made the microprinting even smaller but I think there's a limit at which ink bleeding destroys resolution.
Fiona
10-01-2004, 03:08 PM
what about the watermarks? and the color it turns?
Everywhere I go tests each 20 that comes through
:huh:
Steve
10-01-2004, 03:11 PM
Wow, even the 20's? I've seen 100's and 50's get the ink pen test, but no one even looks at 20's around here!
Not sure how that color-changing deal works with counterfeiting....
warlock56
10-01-2004, 03:16 PM
Well, depending on how intricate the design is, it can be hard. For example, if rogue nations want to really screw us over, they could just start printing our own money...a lot of it. I believe North Korea is currently in possession of an intaglio press.
cmhbob
10-01-2004, 04:22 PM
...back on another web forum I came from out at a big discussion about this topic. Someone discovered that Photoshop or some package wouldn't print out any images of SU currency. Can't find the thread though. Think it was in the early part of the year. The poster was making a big stink about how he head the right to print out copies under the normal guidelines, and this was preventing his use under those guidelines, or something like that.
Had a friend in high school who got busted making double-sided Xerox copies of dollar bills, then taking them to a local self-serve car wash for quarters. Converted about $100 or so. Let a guy we btoh knew in on it, and that kid ended up getting a visit from a deputy sheriff and a Secret Service agent. He quickly rolled. This was back in the early 80's, I think.