[Tiki]

There was a story a while back about a team of people working out of a garage who were bleaching lower denominations and printing a higher value note onto the bleached paper. Higher end inkjets are quite capable, the 'feel' was the biggest issue.

[SpikeDad]

Would only work on old currency. Currency since 1990 has had embedded plastic denomination strips so it's easy to check if you're wondering. In 1996 they started putting the denomination strips in difference locations for each value so you don't even need to be able to read it.

Plus the bills are printed using intaglio so yep, real currency has raised ink but that's hard to reproduce.

[ramjamrodeo]

I'd be interested in seeing an article if that was real. Otherwise the only place I've heard of that was the plot in one of the Jack Reacher novels.

[cmiles74]

I found an article: man in Florida bleaching fives to print hundreds.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-09-10/news/os-bleac...