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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 3547372, member: 11668&quot;]They are not.&nbsp; As of a couple years ago (and I think it&#039;s still correct today), the BEP has eight of the new SOI presses and fourteen of the older I-10 presses.&nbsp; Washington has four of each; FW has the rest.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not absolutely sure what all&#039;s been printed on which press types at various times.&nbsp; Certainly all the 50-subject $1&#039;s are SOI products, because the older presses can&#039;t handle the larger sheets.&nbsp; Many $20&#039;s have been SOI but lately they seem to be mostly I-10.&nbsp; The $5&#039;s were all SOI for a while but I&#039;m not sure about the latest batches.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think the SOI presses have produced any $2, $10, $50, or $100 notes, but there might have been some I&#039;m forgetting.</p><p><br /></p><p>(If you get a quantity of new consecutive notes, you can identify the press type by looking at the rotation of plate numbers.&nbsp; The SOI presses use three different plates in rotation; the I-10 presses use four different plates in rotation.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the original topic of this thread: I have no clue what&#039;s going on with the $20 BP numbers.&nbsp; Historically, the FP numbers have generally run a bit ahead of the BP numbers, because the BPs print on blank flat paper but the FPs print on paper that&#039;s already covered in ridges from the back printing, which makes the FPs wear out just a bit faster.&nbsp; But the recent $20 series have had BPs running *far* ahead of FPs, for no apparent reason....&nbsp; I doubt that there&#039;s a simple explanation involving the SOI presses, because the SOI $1&#039;s don&#039;t seem to exhibit the same pattern.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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