Kind of fun thinking about our joy juice slathered on our bills with Benjamin Franklin and all the dead presidents there Yip.
Oh yeah on ISO standards/ downloads, I got a limited kiosk account for standards with transaction fees that have to be justified through the Boss.
And he's pretty damn cheap on requests directly related to projects I get. A little abusive normally to begin with. He knows, or assumes I'm not working on xeroxing Bens ($100 Bills) on to 8 and-a-½ by 11 fabric sheets at this time.
Stimulated me though. Your post on the ISO Print standards. Not describing my working relationships.
Erxcerpt here from U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) page (I assume we've been in trials with them for a while. You and Rodekroet great a connecting the dots:)[/quote]Doing Business with the BEP Counterfeit Deterrence The BEP is interested in obtaining, testing and evaluating technologies or materials with potential application as a counterfeit deterrent feature in United States currency.
Any technologies or materials submitted for consideration will be reviewed for inherent and relative effectiveness as a security feature, compatibility with design and production factors, durability, environmental acceptability and processing requirements.
The BEP may submit offered technologies to other technical experts under government contracts for their evaluation subject to the approval of the submitter. The BEP is interested in reviewing all types of products, materials and technologies to address all types of counterfeiting, whether using traditional or new technology.
Anti-counterfeiting products of interest include, but are not limited to the following: ink (intaglio, typographic and off-set) and ink additives, alternate and traditional substrates (paper or other medium), substrate additives, design elements or techniques, diffractive, reflective, or otherwise optically variable materials, laminated, or hot-stamped materials.
Additionally, the BEP is interested in reviewing products, materials and technologies to address all types of currency usage (authentication/denomination) including, but not limited to visual, visually-impaired, blind, vending/fare-card, machine sorting, etc. Specifications for currency paper, currency and COPE inks, are available upon written request.....[/quote]Link to full page. Something we all been pondering.
Hell, turn up the VOLUME and check out J. GEILS BAND's opinion in these matters and in the Chorus, &gclef; I ain't broke, just badly bent, everybody loving them dead presidents.
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