THE next time you’re enjoying yourself in a nightclub, look carefully at the change you get at the bar – the notes might be fake. Fierce competition in the inkjet printer market has made digital colour printers so cheap and the print quality so high that a £100 printer can produce fake banknotes that pass for the real thing in dim light.
The alarm was raised by De La Rue, the world leader in security printing. The company has coined the name “digifeiters” for the new generation of counterfeiters spawned by ultra-cheap high-resolution inkjet printers.
In speaking out, De La Rue…
