
Photocopiers don't let you photocopy money. Modern scanning and
printing computer tools don't work with money either. How do they know it's money you're
scanning? It's the
EURion
constellation, a magic pattern of five dots that says "do not copy
me". Details in
Markus Kuhn's
analysis and
these
images.
It's like a talisman, a symbol with mystical powers that is feared but
not understood. The fear is built into copiers and scanners. Adobe went
along too so you can't work with currency images in Photoshop,
although the feature it detects
is not EURion.