How Is Paper Money Made?
Twenty-four hours per day, high-speed presses  were producedis usedare being runis printedare printedare madewere estimated in Washington, DC, and Fort Worth, Texas. They’re not printing newspapers with the latest news. Pages of paper money  are being runare printedis printedis usedwere estimatedare madewere produced. In 2007, about thirty-eight million bills  is usedis printedare being runare printedwere producedwere estimatedare made by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They  are madeis printedwere producedare printedwere estimatedis usedare being run to be worth approximately seven hundred fifty million dollars. Most of the money that  is usedare being runare madewere estimatedare printedis printedwere produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing goes to replace old, worn-out dollar bills. The average life span of a bill is only a few years - from about two years for a one-dollar bill to about seven years for a one-hundred dollar bill. In the United States, dollar bills  is printedare being runare printedwere estimatedwere producedis usedare made using a printing method known as intaglio. Intaglio printing produces dollar bills with images that have slightly raised feel. For this process, an engraving tool called a burin  is usedwere producedare printedis printedare being runare madewere estimated by the master engraver. He also uses a whetstone and
magnifying lens to carve finely detailed images onto a soft steel plate. He engraves the portrait that will be on the front of the bill, the monument for the back, fine lines for the backgrounds, and fancy borders.