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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1356281, member: 19065&quot;]I told you I was being a bad influence. LOL!</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I disagree that the ink from the SNs effected the seal on the $50* note, although, the seal has clogged with ink, pretty obviously (unless the HA pics distorted the look of the seal for some reason).</p><p><br /></p><p>The most recent images I have to share of how modern notes are printed, with close up images of the seals and the separate rotating SN print heads comes from a 2010 <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20009315-52.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20009315-52.html" rel="nofollow">CNET article</a> online. They sent a journalist to the BEP to look at the production of the new $100 notes (which have been having a lot of their own printing problems, obviously, being delayed in their release.) </p><p><br /></p><p>In this article, there is a section of photos, some 25 shots of the printing stages, quality control, etc. Scroll through the images and you can see that while the SN and Treasury seal are both the same green color of ink, they are not laid down in such a way as the SN print heads are &quot;pooling&quot; or spilling ink from SN to seal or vice versa. They are not physically the same place at the same time with the same application of the same ink.</p><p><br /></p><p>The note I linked to on HA, has it&#039;s errors but I think the SN and the seal are not effecting one another directly, it&#039;s something else with the printing equipment, ink or paper controls. <a href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10003957.html?tag=mncol" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10003957.html?tag=mncol" rel="nofollow">Images 16 and 17 </a>will show you the seals and SN print heads.</p><p><b><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20009315-52.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20009315-52.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></b></p><p><b><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20009315-52.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20009315-52.html" rel="nofollow">Behind the scenes with the next-gen $100 bill</a></b> <i>from </i>CNET.com July 1 2010[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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