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Friday, December 4, 2020

Automatic Money Printing Press

 Buying an Automatic Screen Printing Press? What to Know, What You Really Need, and How Much It Costs

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Most screen printing shops struggle with the leap from manual to automatic printing. It’s a common conversation across Facebook groups, on forums, at trade shows, and in conversations with screen printers that haven’t made the leap to automatic printing: “How do I know if it’s time to buy an automatic screen printing press? What do I buy? How much is it really going to cost?”

 

Let’s get started and run through the basics of scaling your production capacity and growing your printing business with automatic screen printing.

When should you upgrade to automatic screen printing press?

“As soon as possible if you like money and being profitable.”

An automatic screen printing press is the fastest and easiest way to scale your printing capabilities. Automatic printing lets you take jobs you simply couldn’t print before. It can also give you more time to focus on sales and marketing for your business instead of pulling (or pushing) a squeegee.

Manual screen printers are great! They can do all sorts of creative things – and are instrumental in pushing screen printing into the future.

Virtually everyone starts with manual printing. It’s rare you’ll visit a shop – even a huge one – and find they don’t have a manual press somewhere in their shop. But purely manual screen printers have all sorts of reasons why they will not or can not make the leap to automatic screen printing.

Maybe they don’t have enough money to afford a press. Sometimes they claim to love the craft of doing manual labor for 8 hours a day. Others simply don’t want to deal with the (overhyped) hassles and supposed risk of getting an auto.

It's this simple: if you really want to grow your printing business, find a way to get an auto into your shop.

Why should you upgrade to automatic screen printing?

Honestly – there is no reason not to go automatic as soon as possible. If you have the revenue and sales to support the investment, it’s a no-brainer.

Some people are really hesitant to make the jump. Several older screen printers told me that automatics used to be considered a death sentence for a shop. It is true that it's a huge commitment! But it’s important to give you some concrete details that put things into perspective. It's not nearly as risky as some think, and the potential upside is too big to ignore.

Besides saving your back and your wrists from the strain of manual screen printing, you will increase your production capacity tremendously.

Let’s give you two example job to flesh out the specific benefits.

The bottom line

If you’re serious about your business, automatic screen printing is the only way to start scaling your capabilities and taking on jobs that you could never profitably print by hand.

Manual screen printing will always have a place. There are people like Madspecials and Modest Merch that have built their brand around the hand-pulled feel. That’s great! But for the rest of us, automatic screen printing unlocks a realm of possibilities that manual printing cannot offer.

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Monday, October 12, 2020

What is the best printer for counterfeit money?

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US Today reported that even though a counterfeit detector pen was used on a fake $100 (€91) bill that a shopper paid with, the ink stayed clear, and it wasn’t until the money was taken to the bank that it was found to be counterfeit. Advanced technology, higher resolutions and colour duplication, along with the lower cost of printing, are making it much harder to define fake currency.

In the financial year of 2015, of the $78 million (€71 million) in counterfeit currency seized, 70 percent was “made using digital printing technology”, reported the Secret Service. Last year “six men were sentenced” for making counterfeit $100 (€91) notes, but they evaded being caught for 15 years because of the sophistication of the fake money. Another case involved a Missouri man printing $9,000 (€8,259) worth of $100 (€91) notes while living in a truck.

Hairdresser Todd Mulbarger, who owns several salons in California, said that he loses $300 to $400 (€275 to €367) a year “due to counterfeits”. There is no reimbursement for being paid with fake money, which can be very hard on those not in a high income bracket. Technology may have helped the criminals but it has also helped law enforcement to “crack down” on the crime by “improved security features” said Elena Quercioli, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas

She added that you have to “think of it as a game. The better they get at counterfeiting, the better we get at catching the counterfeits”. Mulbarger says that the number of counterfeit notes he sees in his salons has dropped “significantly over 20 years” due to the fact more people are using credit cards and that the amount of fake notes “is slipping every year”. A video showing how to identify counterfeit notes is able to be viewed below.

The allure of Counterfeiting is obvious. If you could do it without getting caught, you would be able to print your own money and buy whatever you want with it. Counterfeiting is the ultimate technology for people who want to get something for nothing.

In the not-too-distant past, Counterfeiting was a difficult and expensive endeavor. It required large printing presses and the ability to cut intricate designs by hand into metal plates. Today, it’s much easier to create counterfeit bills. As thousands of teenagers discover every year, if you’re willing to break the law, you can create fake money with a PC, a scanner and a color inkjet printer in about 10 minutes.

In this article, we will look at the technology of Counterfeiting. You will learn about the techniques that you might use if you wanted to create your own counterfeit bills. We’ll also discuss the punishment that you will receive when you get caught trying out these techniques. In the process, you will learn how to detect “funny money” yourself and also discover whether the U.S. money supply is vulnerable to collapse from a sea of counterfeit bills.

Let’s say that you would like to start a life of crime by creating your own counterfeit currency. The easiest way to print your own money is to use your PC. If you own a scanner and a printer, it is pretty easy to get started.

The first thing you would do is put a $20 bill on your scanner. Then you would set the scanner for its highest resolution — perhaps 1,200 or 2,400 DPI — and scan an image of the bill. Your scanner would drop a 5 to 10 megabyte file on your hard drive, which you’d print out to use as money.

However, your stint as a counterfeiter wouldn’t be very successful. The $20 bill that’s been in circulation in the United States since late 2003 is one of the high-tech counterfeit-proof bills from the U.S. Treasury. If you zoom in on different areas of the bill and look at them closely, you can see a number of features designed to deter “casual counterfeiting.”

Whether you are a normal person taking your change at a store, or you are a merchant accepting cash in your business, you need to be aware of the counterfeiting problem. As you have seen, it is easy for teenagers to print counterfeit bills, and there are more sophisticated counterfeiters who are actually bleaching out authentic bills and printing fake bills onto the bleached paper.

Here are several steps you can take to protect yourself:
  • Be suspicious; take time to look at and feel the money you receive.
  • Check for obvious things like duplicate serial numbers.
  • Be especially suspicious of older bills (those bearing old pre-1996 designs) and bills of larger denominations.
Simply refuse to accept older bills. Nearly all the pre-1996 money that is actually legitimate has been taken out of circulation and destroyed already.

Look at bills in the light. The color-shift ink is very hard to fake. The security stripe and watermark are impossible to duplicate with an inkjet printer.

If you believe you are receiving a counterfeit bill, call the police.
A lot of work has gone into creating bills that are hard to counterfeit. If you use the new security features, it is very easy to detect counterfeit bills.







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