Scanning Banknotes

Oh my Gosh! That is a neat trick..

 

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Who wants to play a game of Chess....LOL

 

I have been playing since I was 8 yrs old... I'm game..

RickieB

 

Seems to be that HPs don't have this anti-scanning feature (I have an HP Officejet 5610xi All-in-One, about 2 years old, and have had no problem scanning banknotes, even modern ones with the Eurion or other anti-counterfeiting features).

It is worth noting that there is nothing inherently illegal in just scanning banknotes. It is illegal to produce counterfeit currency of course, for which scanning may be the first step; but if you stop at scanning you've done nothing illegal (posting scanned pictures of banknotes isn't illegal either).

Laws vary from country to country, but as I understand US law it isn't illegal to print a picture/photocopy of US currency, so long as it's either reduced (65% or less) or enlarged (151% or more) and thus the copy can't possibly be confused as legitimate US currency.

 

That was likely a card from Palidin Press or any of the thousand other vendors that advertise in the back of Soldier of Fortune. The Secret Service didn't care because it didn't matter.

 

Anything that prevents you from doing something legal on the basis that someone else may be doing something illegal really bothers me. Of course, the government being the government could just declare that scanning money is illegal.

 

In the case of the 2010 Indonesia 10000 Rupiah note, it isn't the Eurion Constellation that prevents scanning and editing the note in Photoshop - Its the Digimarc Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS) digital watermark designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group.

The Eurion Constellation scans with no problem, but apparently the digital watermark is located in the center of approximate 65% the length of the banknote: