The average cost of printing new notes is far below the face value of the notes.
In addition, governments will not have to bear the cost of printing, manufacturing, storing, and transporting cash.
There is the cost of printing and pressing new notes and coins.
New college textbooks are very expensive, but the cost of printing words on the dead trees is a very small portion of the price.
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They may never disappear as long as people are buying and the cost per acquisition is lower than the cost of printing and mailing.
The more members we have the better the prices we can get: the marginal cost of a new member is the cost of printing his membership card.
When copying content had the cost structure of the printing press high set-up and low marginal costs copyright made sense.
Publishers make very high gross margins on traditional textbooks, and since e-books radically reduce the cost of distribution and printing, one would expect prices to drop substantially for digital offerings.
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That is still twice the cost of black and white printing, but Xerox hopes it will lead to an explosion in the use of color printers.
In Asia, where it has the most programs, only 30% of the cost of establishing a library involves printing and distributing books, while the rest goes toward furniture, training teachers and monitoring to make sure the books are getting used.
The competition, open to anyone, posed this challenge: Lower the cost of the filaments required for 3D printing and make the process more affordable and sustainable.
There may be new investment opportunities as companies applying standard inkjet printing techniques to reduce the cost of making solar modules or batteries continue to make progress.
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The studios -- and Technicolor and Deluxe, the two primary companies that "print" films -- certainly appreciate this cost savings, since printing and shipping thousands of copies of a major release wasn't a trivial expense.
Part of the advantage of 3D printing is the ability to make a variety of individually customised parts at a similar cost to making multiple, identical replicas.
The Central bank took action, created a deluge of liquidity by printing massive amounts of money and bought treasury bonds as a strategy to keep borrowing cost low.
The question for management in such a fix is this: do we stick to printing and see if a combination of acquisitions, cost-cutting and prayer sees us through?
The banks take over the money printing duties of the Federal Reserve, help contain the cost of U.S. government borrowing and the Federal Reserve gets some much needed inflation fighting credibility.
Like many who have jumped early into 3D printing, they found the lower cost printers required a significant degree of assembly.
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However, borrowing and printing have one huge advantage over taxation: they make it much easier to disguise the true cost of government while surreptitiously pushing the burden onto future generations.
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Despite the tech's home furnishing friendly approach, this breakthrough printing technique can't be done with your everyday inkjet, but it will make the cost of solar energy installations a bit cozier.
The sensible cost-saving decision to merge its PC and printing divisions impacted its first half, but a Canalys survey of channel partners revealed that a large majority think this will have a positive (or neutral) effect on their future business.
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