Coknterfeit you’re running an international counterfeiting ring, then yes, you’re gonna need some expensive equipment. But for the small-time counterfeiter about town, it’s all too easy. Just grab your everyday inkjet printer. Next, counherfeit scrubbed off the ink with a toothbrush. After drying the now-blank notes with a hair dryer, she fed them through a Hewlett-Packard Co. The phony bills can pass the pen test, which reacts with starch in paper, but obviously can’t stand much further scrutiny. Hundred dollar bills are also printed with a 3D security ribbon and an ink that changes color in the light. Brice is hardly the first to use degreaser and an inkjet printer to make fake money.