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Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4797
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:13 pm: | 
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My nephew and I have been trying to scan paper money into a foler on the computer. We can't get them to scan the actual size. Either they come out way too big, or way too small. Nobody I've asked can figure it out. I don't want to go to Route 10 to the computer store to ask. Any suggestions? TIA! |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1425
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:16 pm: |
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I would strongly suggest reconsidering your plan to bring this job to any store... I'm pretty sure that it is very (very) illegal to copy US currency in 'actual size'.
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Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 722
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:43 pm: |
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Have you tried googling it and then resizing the images |
Monster©
Supporter
Username: Monster
Post Number: 2888
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - 10:54 pm: |
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http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/regulations
Regulations for Reproducing US Currency
PART 411 -- COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNITED STATES CURRENCY
Authority: 18 U.S.C. 504; Treasury Directive Number 15-56, 58 FR 48539
(September 16, 1993)
411.1 Color illustrations authorized.
(a) Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 25 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, authority is hereby given for the printing, publishing or importation, or the making or importation of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publishing, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:
(1) The illustration be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated;
(2) The illustration be one-sided; and
(3) All negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.
(b) [Reserved].
10 dollar bill, http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/media/10download
20 dollar bill, http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/media/20materials
50 dollar bill, http://www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney/main.cfm/media/download
(sometimes you have to try to load the page a couple of times before you get it)
Recently, applications such as Adobe Photoshop, in cooperation with the our government and other world governments have taken to implementing safety protocols in their software that recognizes world currency, and can or will block copying, manipulation, etc. of said currency. Of course this goes for some of the new software, old software has no restrictions, but then there are restrictions that have been implemented in machines such as copiers and scanners also. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4800
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 6:41 am: |
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Somebody better talk to the people on www.wheresgeorge.com and www.coolnumbers.com then because both sites have money that people scan into the computer. So, if this isn't allowed, how do we scan it a little smaller then? |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1426
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 7:49 am: |
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I did the Where's George thing for awhile - it was interesting, but it never really seemed to 'go anywhere'. Of course, wheresgeorge did not make duplicates of US currency (that's the illegal part), they just tracked serial numbers. The gray area for wheresgeorge was the 'defacement of US currency', and as I recall the loophole there was that it was illegal to 'render the bill unusable' or something.
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upondaroof
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 643
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 8:45 am: |
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Now here's something really cool. I read the above posts and just for the helluvit I put a 10 spot through the scanner to see what JTA's problem was. It scanned OK but when I tried to print it prints 1/3 of the note and prints: http://rulesforuse.com, under it. Check out the link. This only happens with new notes, the one's that look funny to begin with and like they were soaked in a tea pot. You can still scan and print your greenbacks, but personally, I'd rather scan the winning power ball ticket for the next pull! |
Carla
Citizen
Username: Elbowroom
Post Number: 72
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 8:45 am: |
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What is it you are trying to accomplish? Why does it need to be actual size? You can scan an image any size you want and then print it any size you want using the print settings in most Adobe image products. Or just resize the image to the correct dimensions - once again using Adobe's software - and then print. If you have a scanner then you should have some sort of image software that came with it. Learn it, use it.
I wouldn't worry about what the above posters are saying. I doubt you could print anything that would be accepted anywhere and don't think you are that stoopid to try. But don't take your project out of the house in anyway. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 4801
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 9:12 am: |
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Okay I need to clear something up. We do not want to print what we scan. We just want to have the ability to put them on a 'mini-site' to show we actually have the bills we say we do. We've got some 'cool number' bills that are 98 percent cool.' We also have what is called a '50 state Bingo,' Plus some blue notes etc. Many Georgers create wesites withtheir bils and my nephew wants to do the same. I got hooked on George back in 1991 (for the second time).
A year or so before that I found a couple of bills I did re enter in the system, but didn't register because I was afraid of being arrested. I think I'm ranked 70 or something like that in the state. I have several bills with four hits, some with three, and a bunch with two!
My nephew and I are actually going to a George get together mid May in New Brunswick and another just over the state line in New York by Sussex County in July. He begged me to take him! He's already had me get him a strap of singles and he's started to stamp and mark them. The day before he'll enter them into the database under my account. We usually put an * in the 'notes' area so he knows they were 'his' bills.
My friends tell me I'm nuts all the time. And I need a life! The guy in 7-11 loves it when I come in there with 60 singles to trade for twenties or a fifty and ten. we set a lot loose in Maplewood and the South Orange Pool. If you come across one, please take the five minutes or so to re enter them at www.wheresgeorge.com Enter a short not where you got the bill. You do not have to register to do this. My nephew get's excited everything 'we' get a hit!
We have hits in all but four states. Even Alaska and Hawaii. Several other countries and several in Canada!
It's a neat hobby and a fun way to notice patterns in numbers. He gets all excited when he thinks he has a 'cool number!' He'll come running in the house calling or me to check the number for him, since he can't get onto the site without me.
Carla
When I try to scan the bills they come out smaller then Monopoly money. I do have Adobe. Never thought to see if I could scan through it though. I'm going to try. Thanks for the suggestion.
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upondaroof
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 648
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 11:20 am: |
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Point your browser to: http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm and download a free version of Irfanview. Excellent for resizing. |
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