how long before you did a no no ???

Question

for those of you with copiers,how long did you have it before copying some type of currency , just out of curiousity ??????

Answer 1

Hey, Y'all, copying money is done all the time....
WAY, way back when, all you could get was black and white.
By adjusting the contrast and bright, and using colored paper,
you could get something that at a quick glance, " looked" like
the real thing. Everyone has done this just as an experiment, and
usually, just one side only, to see what it looks like.
I have been in bars where idiots pass off the new color prints
as real, particularly as a tip, which is really a mean thing to do to
the waitresses who are sweating their butts off on a busy shift..
On one advertising campaign, I came up with the idea of using a
black and white copier, with colored paper, and copying 1/4 of a hundred dollar bill. The paper was cut and folded like a bill folded in half, with the 1/4 showing on top. Advertising was printed on the rest of the paper, the folded papers were tucked under windshield wiper blades of cars in parking lots. When you walked by, it looked like someone folded a $100 bill and stuck in on the window ( quite an attention grabber ). Before printing, tiny modifications were done on the bill, such as the signature, and the writing, so that you would have to look carefully to see that it was not an exact duplicate. Black and white was all that anyone used back then, since color printers were Corporate only and many dollars for a single, one sided, sheet, and... you could NOT print both sides, since the toner was heat-set, so that if you printed the second side, all the ink would come off the other side and goo up the rollers...
There have been a couple of projects done, deliberately copying bills on various machines, with various settings, and inks, and papers to test out the hundreds of different kinds of bank note scanners and security devices - how can you test the equipment if you dont have a pile of fakes? Also, in advertising, films, and TV, you have to get a stockpile of cash for shooting, and using real cash is not always possible. Again, the scans are modified so that close inspection shows them to be obviously fakes, but from the camera's view, they look real.
I won't get into test printing with rather sophisticated techniques and inks to see how close you can to fool security equipment, but you can certainly fool the naked eye. Almost all laser printers and inkjets now come with hidden security marks embedded in all the prints, so that experts can easily tell EXACTLY which machine printed any document ( so don't get stupid ! ) In Germany, etc. there are high-tech magnetic strips inside the paper, which can be detected easily by computer scanners, etc. and this will probably be the trend in the future. It is amazing, when you think back only a few years ago, but paper money itself is becomming obsolete, as bank cards, and electronic devices replace cash in all the stores. In Japan, you can use your Cell Phone as a debit card to make purchases, and, as I am sure you know, you put a small electronic transponder in your window of your car now, and just pulling up to the gas pumps automatically logs you in, and debits your gas account, without doing anything... you just pull up, fill up, and drive away...
In England, just walking into a bank logs you in to the computer, since a camera locates your eyes, looks inside the retina, and scans the blood vessels, much like a finger print. You walk up to the computer, and there are no codes or passwords - the computer has logged you before you reach it! In movies like Johnny Memonic, etc, just walking down a street has dozens of cameras that immediately identifiy you, and log you in to advertizing and signs around you, as well as security systems... Big brother is watching! I am wondering if the last of paper money's use will occur in my lifetime - things change so fast.!
Anyhow, as for your question, many many bills have been copied, but luckily only a few idiots have actually tried to use them outside the home or office - copying is usually done as a gag only.
On this note, it is theoretically illegal to deface ordinary coins, but this is done all the time as well - for example, someone or some Corporation or Country is using every scrap of copper they can get their hands on - sending the price of copper through the roof. It is now cheaper to drill a hole in a penny to make a copper washer, than it is to buy one - you could pay 25 cents for a washer! As well, old dimes were high silver content, and again, an old dime can have 50 cents of silver in it.... ( you can guess what happens to old dimes in certain areas... )...

Answer 2

Never. The thought of Secret Service agents and federal prison was always a deterrent.