How to make a bank note

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Design Notes are designed to be difficult and time consuming to copy

Hollograms

Watermarks

UV Features

Raised Print

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Materials Made from cotton fibre and linen rag 85 inks are required for the 4 notes

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Offset Litho Printing plates that puts ink onto both sides of the paper, using an offset roller

Ink Rollers Plate Cylinder Paper

Blanket (offset) Cylinder

Impression Cylinder

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Intaglio Prints the portrait of her majesty the Queen and the raised print

Paper

Rollers

Ink

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Letter Press Numerota machine transfers individual serial numbers onto each bank note

Paper Impression Cylinder Ink Rollers

Press Bed

6 Foil & Varnish 6 6 The note goes through a foiler machine and then a coat of varnish is added to seal the note

Foil Paper

Varnish Layer

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Inspection The notes are inpected and then sent to the guillotine, cut and then shrinked packaged