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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 7849555, member: 11668&quot;]The plates are the same size as the sheets--these days, that&#039;s either 32 subjects (4 across and 8 down) or 50 subjects (5 across and 10 down) depending on denomination.&nbsp; Consecutive serial numbers come from the same position of different sheets, because the serial numbers are arranged in such a way that a stack of 100 freshly numbered sheets can be whacked with a guillotine cutter to produce stacks of 100 notes already in serial order.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both the face plate number and the position identifier are engraved in the plate, so they&#039;re printed at the same time.&nbsp; Since the press uses several plates in rotation, consecutive sheets will have different plate numbers.&nbsp; Exceptions can occur when a few defective sheets fail inspection before serial numbering, causing a couple of sheets with the same plate number to happen to end up next to each other in the finished stack.</p><p><br /></p><p>One does occasionally see very small size differences between new notes, but generally this results from a full pack of 100 notes being cut slightly long/short.&nbsp; Likewise, occasionally the vertical cuts aren&#039;t *quite* perpendicular to the horizontal cuts, leaving the margins slightly skewed; but again, a quirk like that affects the entire pack of 100 notes since they&#039;re all cut together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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