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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 398647, member: 11668&quot;]The web press was an attempt by the BEP to reduce the cost of currency production.&nbsp; If it&#039;d worked better, most likely all of our currency would be printed that way by now.&nbsp; Unfortunately, while the web press was faster and cheaper to operate, its finished product was noticeably lower in quality than the currency printed the normal way; and worse, the press itself had a tendency to break down far too often.&nbsp; So the BEP just ended up tinkering with it for several years, producing a few tens of millions of $1 notes every now and then to test whether they&#039;d finally got the bugs worked out.&nbsp; Making little progress, they finally gave up and sold the press as scrap metal in 1997 or so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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