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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 3111703, member: 11668&quot;]A plate prints either 32 (4x8) or 50 (5x10) bills on a large sheet.&nbsp; The presses use several plates at a time, so that one plate can be inked while another one is printing and so on.&nbsp; Thus a press produces a stack of sheets that cycle through several different plate numbers (either three or four, depending on the press).</p><p><br /></p><p>Consecutive serial numbers come from different sheets--the serials are laid out so that 100 sheets can be stacked and cut into a bunch of 100-note packs already in consecutive order.&nbsp; So notes with consecutive serial numbers will generally have different plate numbers.&nbsp; In general the plate numbers will run in a regular cycle of three or four plates, but occasionally there will be skips where a misprinted sheet was pulled out of the stack before the serial numbers were added.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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