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		bryanlarsen on Oct 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The $1,200 Machine That Lets Anyone Make a Metal G... It is illegal to sell high quality printers that print currency, or at least sufficient pressure has been applied to printer makers so that their printers refuse to print currency. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/projects/currency/

schoen on Oct 1, 2014 [–]

I'm pretty sure that it's a matter of "sufficient pressure" and not legislation in this case, at least in most jurisdictions.

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