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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