Q. If my printer could literally print out money, would it have that big an effect on the world? —Derek O’Brien A. You can fit four bills on an 8.5" × 11" sheet of paper. If your printer can manage one page (front and back) of full-color high-quality printing per minute, that’s $200 million dollars a year. This is enough to make you very rich, but not enough to put any kind of dent in the world economy. Since there are 7.8 billion $100 bills in circulation, and the lifetime of a $100 bill is about 90 months, that means there are about a billion produced each year. Your extra two million bills
...more
