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Originally Posted by bostonboy  Firstly thank you all for your posts this has to be the most insightfull bshock topic to date. I was thinking, coul one make a copy of the water mark make it trasparent almost to ghost, print to paper BEFORE you print the bill. Then you would have almost what you need, it shows up when you place it to the light but not so much normaly. Just a thought, let me know |
Printing a watermark doesn't work. If you make it light enough to be invisible most of the time, it won't be visible when you hold it to light.
If you want to make watermarks, you need a custom embosser stamp or a metal portrait of the president in question. In either case, the watermark must be placed before the bill is printed. With the embosser, you can put the watermark on when the paper is still wet. With the metal portrait, you would iron the paper over the metal impression - leaving the impression in the paper.
I've been looking into how practical/cost effective either of these concepts would be (one could print $50s and $100s if one could create watermarks).