From: "Robert Comer" 

> The question being... how did they know it was money?

Ink color?  Pattern matching?  Probably ink with minor patter matching --
think of bill changers only with less discrimination needs.

>And what was the potential for this being disablable?

Hard to tell, but just copying the picture and the color would not be near
enough to make fake money that would pass more than a very cursory
examination.

- Bob Comer


"jeff"  wrote in message
news:41a529d4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> "jeff"  wrote in message
>> news:41a4aff1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>I was told awhile back that it was illegal to make a copier that had a
>>>high enough resolution to copy money.
>>>
>>>Looks like this was the solution to that problem.
>>
>>
>> There have been better solutions. Xerox has had copier/printers out for
>> quite some time that would refuse to copy money - granted this was on
>> their expensive models but I'd rather have that solution migrated
>> downwards than have the 'buried serial number' solution and it's
>> potential for misuse
>>
> The question being... how did they know it was money? And what was the
> potential for this being disablable?

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