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the Bureau of Engraving and printing in Washington DC produces billions of dollars or Federal Reserve notes each year for delivery to the Federal Reserve System throughout the nation the bureau is part of the US Department of Treasury and has currency production facilities in Washington DC and Fort Worth Texas c-span visited the Bureau of Engraving and printing to learn about the process of creating currency and the craft of engraving my name is Gary slat I'm a banknote engraver here to be of Engraving and printing I'm in my 38th year of service and this is what I do here I inspect and manufacture the US currency plates today I'm just inspecting a new hundred dollar note new hundred-dollar plate this is a real currency plate this is the $100 face nextgen currency that we're in the process of printing now there's 32 notes on this sheet this sheet this prints of 32 note sheet this plate will get approximately 800 thousand impressions off of it before it wears and on a regular basis we continue to make plates ones five 10s 50s 20 hundreds faces and backs so it's inspected four times before it actually gets to the plate gets to the press rather I'm sorry and it's inspected before it's Chrome after it's chrome like it is now after it's after it's bent and when it goes on the press so every knows exactly the same but comes from one master die which is a note one singular note and the Secret Service would know it's very important for them to have every piece of currency exactly the same to beat the counterfeiting that goes on in this day and age this plate I'll work on about two and a half hours I'll look at each note line for line cut for cut and make sure that there's no no imperfections in this plate I'll look at it with this glass here this glass is about a three and a half magnification I will look through it and go over the out and look for any scratches a that could print if they print then that note will that note will have to be taken out the sheet may have to be taken out the pred the plate may have to be taken off the press which is like in any other factory when you shut down the press or you stop working and time is money roughly how much money is produced here in a given day in amazing about 26 million notes approximately produced every day that 26 million notes is equivalent to approximately 974 million dollars that are produced every day at the Bureau of Engraving and printing also a little-known fact is over 9 tons of ink are used every day and the production of those 26 million notes I mentioned you