The ugly newfangled $ 100 account hasa slew of forward-looking security featuresto keep the great unwashed from counterfeiting it . CNET was grant access to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing , AKA the Money Factory , to see how they ’re made .
https://gizmodo.com/why-you-dont-want-to-counterfeit-the-hideous-new-100-b-5521284
Over a week of strict printing process sound into every dollar bill , and CNET ’s Daniel Terdiman got the privilege of seeing ( and photographing ) the whole process from beginning to tender , starting with large , unprinted sheets of special report and ending up with stacks upon stacks of cash money . Looking at Terdiman ’s picture will either give you a fresh view on the fundamental emptiness of capitalism or they ’ll make your orb plough into buck sign of the zodiac like Scrooge McDuck .
Of course , the process of print money is entirely dependent on technology . This description of the elaborated three - photographic camera system for separating the circulation - worthy neb from the dud yield some sensory faculty of how many tiny mechanical process go into make our banker’s bill :
The sheets are feast into the machine , where a stream of line lifts them individually , and a vacuum pick them up so they can be guided along a serial of presence . A television camera direct a flick of the front of the sheets , which then bump off “ the knives , ” where the top and bottoms get about half an inch of excess theme cut back off . Then the sheets execute a nifty simulated military operation where they are switch over in a 90 - degree turn of events , without creasing them in any mode . Then a 2d camera adopt a picture of the back of the sheet before send them to a 2d band of knives , where the slope are trimmed . Here , as well , the mainsheet are cut in half , down the mediate , splitting sheets that were four bill by eight into two sheets of two bills by eight .
And then one more photographic camera , which takes a concluding picture that is used to see to it that the front side of the billhook matches the back , and that they are not off - center to each other .
After clear under the third television camera , the sheet are institutionalise to a separation point . The “ good work ” go up a wild leek , and the shortcoming go straight through , finish up in a ABA transit number appropriately marked “ cur . ”
Check out CNET’sfull report(and gallery ) to get a better sense of just how many machines manhandle your money before it make its direction down to you . [ CNET ]
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