Benjamin Franklin

Elise Hacking Carr is senior production editor for Print & Promo Marketing magazine, and managing editor for PRINTING United Journal.

Despite years of production-related delays, the updated $100 bill has undergone a major makeover that includes a color-changing ink well, 3-D security ribbon, and more texture on Benjamin Franklin's collar.

The new, more expensive C-note is scheduled to enter circulation Oct. 8, and also has a higher calling: It aims to fight back against counterfeiters by using better printers and technology.

The modifications will help people check for fake $100s without going to a bank or using a blacklight, said Michael Lambert, a deputy associate director at the Federal Reserve.

"Certainty?" In this world nothing is certain but being able to finish this famous Benjamin Franklin quote. If someone offered you a nickel for every time you were lectured on "death and taxes," you would be a millionaire. (On the flip side, that would mean more to claim on your taxes.)

Publick Printer. That's the title that founding father Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) gave to the job of coordinating printing for the then new United States government. He was the first "publick" printer, and he felt strongly—having been a printer himself—in establishing a single authority to ensure quality and fair pricing for the printing of federal government documents.

After nearly 10 years as U.S. Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service, John E. Potter today announced that he will retire on Dec. 3,

"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin was obviously on to something. Taxes have and will never go away, but that's good news for companies selling tax forms, software and reporting tools.

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