But the reality is that given electronic document management today, people end up printing less and managing more.
In 2011, the three founders decided to target that disparity by starting Formlabs, a company whose purpose is to design a simple, professional, end-to-end 3D printing package that individuals can afford.
Instead, today anyone wanting access to 3D printing services can get it from companies like Shapeways, Sculpteo, or Materialise, each of which can put the type of high-end 3D printing technology into the hands of creative types required to make anything from toys and puzzles to jewelry and clothing.
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Such dilemmas will continue throughout Asia so long as Japan and other developed countries keep printing money without end.
Of course, they have been saying this every year since the first explosion of money printing at the end of 2008.
The common wisdom is that printing is a dead end.
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Look for the money printing to cease by year-end, says Paul Hoffmeister, chief economist at boutique investment research firm Bretton Woods Research in New Jersey.
The central bank will have to either join foreign sellers of US debt in sending interest rates higher (in the hopes of giving the dollar some footing and allowing high rates to encourage the return of real buyers) or ramp up the printing presses to keep the long end of the yield curve from spiking.
Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
On the volume end of the spectrum, the gradual evolution of Gutenberg era printing to the offset printer (introduced in 1875) created a turn of the century boom in paper-based media, and the great Hearst-Pulitzer circulation wars of 1895-1898.
In the printing and personal systems group, the company intend to reduce the number of SKUs in printing by 30% and in PCs by 25% by the end of 2014.
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You won't lose your documents if you end your subscription one day, but you'll be limited to viewing and printing them.
And then VJ paints a picture of a whole back-end, cloud-based system that supports his vision of the coming role imaging and printing will play.
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Toward this end, the Old Guard has used the Russian central bank to undermine the Yeltsin economic reform program by printing trillions of rubles to feed these industrial dinosaurs.
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However, printing money eventually leads to intractable inflation and will send bond yields much higher, especially on the long end of the yield curve.
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