Basically the addition of lanolin prevents the ink in counterfeit detection pens from actually seeping through the bill, it sort of waterproofs it so to speak, I've found that if you add this (and why not, the fed does) it not only defeats these pesky pens, but it also does give that extra crispness/ durability to the finished bills. Basically buy a can of lanolin at a crafts store, and a counterfeit pen and play arround with the two untill you have the right consistency for the paper you're using. I've been having my fun with niro-cellulose (flash paper) and the funny thing is that two sheets laminated has the right feel weight, and it's very durable, the fibre is close in look to currency paper and I believe it is starchless as well. While not everyone would want to go this route (Never use the stuff with a laser printer (obviously) however, plain cellulose paper should also work very well for anyone interested...
adressing apacaston's question; re-read the original post and you'll see that the thread is printed on the inside face of one side of the two laminated pieces.
to P41NK1LL3Rx; precisely how to do it. Anyone good at ID forgery can easily hash out how to do this with their current set-up, it's nearly the same as printing OV devices on teslin with an inkjet.
to J_Frost24; I believe I've heard of the same operation, it's not really an issue if you leave a sepparrate field in the template for serials, basically I print in sheets and die-cut later, so my template is for 9 bills, everytime I load a template I just put new numbers on each bill, you can also build a font (or use someone else's though I dislike doing this) and load that font into any program that assigns serials (I like using versa cheque to be perfectly honest) I usually leave my serial field hidden and re-load the paper and print the serials all at once using a custom template sized fro 9 bills. It's never failed me and it auto assigns a progression as though it's a cheque, meaning the serials are in order. Cut down the bills and then shuffle them like cards and you never grab any bills that are in sequence either.
to Paranoid Ecstasy; not really, there's a convoluted thread dealing with bill washing, top of the line stuff... in the 1980's, sort of stupid these days if you want to take this seriously and not serve 6-28 months in federal prison for toying arround, believe me, this is 90% of the cases the secret service persues. And really, what was the point in even posting to this thread if you arn't going to say anything usefull?  |