no problem.

If you attempt to use a color printer dots are printed to identify the printer used along with time and date.


If scanners did prevent scanning of money there are work arounds to it.

You don't need to scan money to get it onto your computer and print it.

You can take photos easy enough (although I am sure there are some who would love to ban taking pics of everything from guns to money to factory farms).

There are laws in place about using bogus money. Just like there are laws in place to punish people who do other things already.

None of those laws can prevent determined folks - but they can deter and punish them.

Your own printed money would be a felony. Even if you never spent it. You're not supposed to copy money. Some folks will do it anyways, but let them go to jail. I don't want to have to be stripped searched at an airport, or any open event where security is crucial for plastic guns.

It's a federal crime to print money. Get caught, possibly go to federal prison for 20 years. Get caught making one of these, go to jail. Expect to see anxious kids ready to shoot ANYTHING after printing their gun. Cat's, birds, dogs, people. Let them make toy guns. Fill the barrel with plastic, and a trigger that doesn't move, or squirt guns.

It cannot be reprinted at the same size. Lots of advertising uses scanned bills or coins, but they are always reduced or enlarged significantly. Early scanners used to automatically reduce scanned images by a very small percentage, which drove designers (AKA me) crazy if they were trying to scan something to insert and match size. I don't think scanners automatically reduce anymore.

Not exactly a kingpin, and he did manage to get himself caught and sentenced . . . but he said it worked . . .

If you don't mind me asking?

I got busted in Atlanta with 5 keys of 98% pure coke.

A client had been caught, and agreed to set me up for the DEA.

I refused to rat anyone off.

I'm the only person you'll ever meet who can truthfully claim that he showered with Ivan Boesky.

the money itself is impossible to scan with commercial scanners. Not just the resolution, but watermarks, unscannable colors, secret strips...

And the paper-- look closely at a new bill and see the tiny colored fibers, the strip "inside" the paper and all sorts of other things you can't find in any paper you can buy at Staples.

Take a bill and hold it up to the light and see some of the hidden stuff in it.

check out-- http://www.secretservice.gov/know_your_money.shtml

Counterfeiting is still possible, but not by some amateur in the basement with a Canon scanner.

I think now it has come to the point where businesses that deal with a lot of cash use the more advanced counterfeit detector machines. This post that talks about some of the more advanced technology - http://www.itestcash.com/blogs/itest-university/29790081-the-science-of-counterfeit-money-detection. The counterfeit pens seem like they can pick up some fakes but apparently not the more advanced one like this article shows here- https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dont-rely-on-those-counterfeit-detecting-pens.152605/.