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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 543071, member: 15062&quot;]I don&#039;t know how many scanner manufacturers use their own electronics.&nbsp; I kind of suspect that there are standard chipsets used in the printers.&nbsp; Regardless of who makes them, these chips have been mandated by Big Brother to contain certain pattern recognition features that detect when a piece of currency is being scanned, and to alter the scan when detected.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These chips aren&#039;t in the older scanners which should still be able to scan bills without problems.&nbsp; My 3100 series HP scanner has no problems doing this.&nbsp; Additionally, the newer scanners can probably scan older bills than don&#039;t have the current security features.</p><p><br /></p><p>A description of exactly what the security features are that the scanner software looks for is nearly impossible to find.&nbsp; At some time in the past I did read something that I can&#039;t find now that described a few of the features.&nbsp; The only thing I remember now dealt with the $20 bills.&nbsp; If you look on the back of the 2004 series bills in the lighter areas you can see scores of tiny 20s printed in yellow.&nbsp; These are arranged in a seemingly random pattern but are actually in a specific pattern that the scanner recognizes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As alluded to in other posts here, some printer and image processing software contains the same recognition features and will not print images of bills</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless laws have been changed I think you can print images of bills if you manage to copy them, if they are enlarged in size by at least 50%, reduced in size by at least 25% or printed in black and white at any size.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you can&#039;t scan the bills you want, your only options seem to be to buy an older scanner without the recognition software or photograph the bill and copy it to file.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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