So for a laugh i tried to scan a twenty euro note with an epson scanner ...

LighterGuy · 02-02-2011 11:45PM #1

and a security warning came up said "we do not allow the scanning of bank notes" :pac:

wow. never knew they had such security features.

What else am I meant to burn now at parties to be seen as "a crazy fu*ker"

you let me down epson!

thoughts

Basq · 02-02-2011 11:49PM

Try a coin..

.. Put it in the microwave first to soften it up!

cml387 · 02-02-2011 11:49PM

LighterGuy wrote: »

and a security warning came up said "we do not allow the scanning of bank notes" :pac:

wow. never knew they had such security features.

What else am I meant to burn now at parties to be seen as "a crazy fu*ker"

you let me down epson!

thoughts

I tried someting similar but it came up with a message

"We do not allow the scanning of body parts unless you are Katy Perry"

Sophisticated imaging software or what?

Kimono-Girl · 02-02-2011 11:50PM

search google image for one and print that!

*says she before going to try scan a €50 in her hp printer*

i tried it, it worked, you lied, i'm a criminal now! :eek:

TeddyTedson · 02-02-2011 11:50PM

LighterGuy wrote: »

and a security warning came up said "we do not allow the scanning of bank notes" :pac:

wow. never knew they had such security features.

What else am I meant to burn now at parties to be seen as "a crazy fu*ker"

you let me down epson!

thoughts

everything else!?

AnonoBoy · 02-02-2011 11:51PM

If you try and scan a music CD a message from IMRO comes up.

Kiera · 02-02-2011 11:52PM

You could try burning yourself. If i saw someone setting themself on fire i'd think they were one crazy mofo (in the St Ita's sense of the word).

KeithM89_old · 02-02-2011 11:52PM

Why not just try and scan your ass like a normal person??

funk-you · 02-02-2011 11:52PM

Smash you scanner up for giving you shit.

-Funk

W.Shakes-Beer · 02-02-2011 11:53PM

smash your face onto the scanner and press "scan"...have a PICASSO!

bonerm · 02-02-2011 11:54PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

If you try and scan a music CD a message from IMRO comes up.

It says "why are you still using CD's?"

AnonoBoy · 02-02-2011 11:57PM

bonerm wrote: »

It says "why are you still using CD's?"

No it's from Sharon Corr.

It says, "Hey, music piracy ain't cool. I mean if you're robbing off a small-time band that I've never heard of it's ok but our record company will make eircom cut you off if you try to rob our music. Also - if you see my brother Jim around will you ask him to please, please start taking his medication again."

LighterGuy · 03-02-2011 12:00AM

Kimono-Girl wrote: »

.....i tried it, it worked, you lied, i'm a criminal now! :eek:

It worked on a hp printer?!
damn you epson!

Like I could copy it no problem :P (printing while scanning at the same time deal) but scanning it as a file to my pc .. wouldnt let me

damn you epson!

johndoe99 · 03-02-2011 12:03AM

first i heard of that, i tried it on my "Brother DCP130C" and it gets half way through scanning, and then goes to the image, but only half the €20 note is there, it stops at the "20" in 2002 everytime. Must be something embedded in the paper for it to stop at that exact point each time.

alwaysadub · 03-02-2011 12:04AM

Go burn down Epson then. Obviously!

LighterGuy · 03-02-2011 12:05AM

johndoe99 wrote: »

first i heard of that, i tried it on my "Brother DCP130C" and it gets half way through scanning, and then goes to the image, but only half the €20 note is there, it stops at the "20" in 2002 everytime. Must be something embedded in the paper for it to stop at that exact point each time.

Its the printing software :P
It has security features built in. Since all bank notes look the same. it can easily detect another being scanned.

damn you epson! :P

Abelloid · 03-02-2011 12:08AM

Photoshop won't let you edit banknote images either.

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/EURion_constellation

Yes, I have tried..

LighterGuy · 03-02-2011 12:10AM

JustinOval wrote: »

Photoshop won't let you edit banknote images either.

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/EURion_constellation

Yes, I have tried..

Photoshop too!
Damn you adobe!
:P

RichieC · 03-02-2011 12:11AM

I tried to scan me b0llocks once and it said the same thing. I think it's the patterns.

Kimono-Girl · 03-02-2011 12:11AM

LighterGuy wrote: »

Photoshop too!
Damn you adobe!
:P

they are all out to get you,

hide now before its too late

LighterGuy · 03-02-2011 12:12AM

alwaysadub wrote: »

Go burn down Epson then. Obviously!

I can do one better.
Going to take a picture of me having forced sex with my epson printer and send it to them ... with the caption ... "she loved it"

too far?

messymess · 03-02-2011 12:17AM

There's probably a software/firmware hack you could get to sort that out. I'd want to do it on pure principal, even with no intention of printing it out and giving it to strippers.

Cantona's Collars · 03-02-2011 12:19AM

Use monopoly money.

minikin · 03-02-2011 12:19AM

Interesting but true: commercial laser printers embed a barely visible dot code in each print out - encodes the machines serial number, as well as the date and time of the print... no more anonymously printed anti-government flyers!

bonerm · 03-02-2011 12:23AM

If you scan zimbabwe notes with adobe there's a a feature that will draw an extra zero on the end to reflect the amount of inflation that has occurred between pressing scan and the image appearing on your screen.

Overature · 03-02-2011 12:25AM

I did that once a few years back, i got as far as printing it off, but it would only print half of it

Abelloid · 03-02-2011 12:26AM

minikin wrote: »

Interesting but true: commercial laser printers embed a barely visible dot code in each print out - encodes the machines serial number, as well as the date and time of the print... no more anonymously printed anti-government flyers!

Conspiracy theory, or can this be backed up with evidence?

Hmmm, just found this...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/government_uses_color_laser_printer_technology_to_track_documents.html

LighterGuy · 03-02-2011 12:26AM

minikin wrote: »

Interesting but true: commercial laser printers embed a barely visible dot code in each print out - encodes the machines serial number, as well as the date and time of the print... no more anonymously printed anti-government flyers!

Wow.
I imagine ink printers must do the same?

StupidLikeAFox · 03-02-2011 12:29AM

JustinOval wrote: »

Photoshop won't let you edit banknote images either.

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/EURion_constellation

Yes, I have tried..

The urine constellation?

minikin · 03-02-2011 12:30AM

If you need to scan and print notes - scan them at an angle, add a bit of gaussian blur in photoshop (disrupts the security pattern) then rotate, crop and print.
(only prints if you leave it a bit blurred, rather than trying to resharpen the file)

Wow.
I imagine ink printers must do the same?

I've only ever seen it on our laser machines, never seen it on the inkjets!
They're more concerned with laser printers because of the output, an inkjet couldn't print the same quality two sided on stock which would be light enough to pass for currency.

Conspiracy theory, or can this be backed up with evidence?

No, it's for real... i work at it (printing, not counterfeiting) day in day out

Abelloid · 03-02-2011 12:31AM

If printers can be tracked in this manner I guess this is **** all use to me...

http://www.dafont.com/ransom-note.font

So for a laugh i tried to scan a twenty euro note with an epson scanner ...

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