Printing flaw affects $100 bills
The US Treasury and the Federal Reserve have printed 1.1 billion high-tech 100-dollar bills that may never see circulation, reports Fox News.
The high-tech hundreds have advanced security features to combat counterfeiters, and were initially scheduled for release in February 2011. But even the printing process for the bills is complex - so complex in fact that it has led to problems of its own.
An unnamed official told CNBC that 1.1 billion of the new bills are unusable because of a creasing problem in which paper folds over during production, revealing a blank unlinked portion of the bill face. A second person familiar with the situation said at the height of the problem, as many as 30% of the bills rolling off the printing press included the flaw, leading to a production shut down.
Face recognition 3D tech unveiled
Lathem recently unveiled the Model FR700 - the first terminal in its line of FaceIN face recognition systems for time and attendance, and access control, notes Chem Info.
The FR700 wall-mounted terminal incorporates 3D-imaging technology to identify employees, enhance security and eliminate buddy punching or employees clocking in and out for each other.
Employees simply look at FaceIN, and within seconds, they are identified, clocked in/out or admitted into secure locations.
Zebra avails high-speed ID printer
Zebra Technologies, a provider of specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, has released the ZXP Series 3 card printer, which the company says will be available in the first quarter of 2011, writes eWeek.
The ZXP Series 3 extends Zebra's Card printer product line with a model that is designed to combine performance and affordability in a small footprint suited for most card printing and encoding applications.
The ZXP Series 3 is a full-featured, high-speed card printer ready to be integrated into standard ID card and access control applications. The company says its compact size makes it ideal for deployment in educational institutions and retail outlets for ID card, gift card, loyalty card or membership card applications.
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