Sherraden did about 550 print jobs last year, including the cover for a digital type catalog for Agfa, a maker of photographic film.

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"For a film of that style and type it was quite a small budget, " he said.

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Solyndra, which was founded in 2005, invented a type of cylindrical solar module that was printed with thin-film photovoltaic cells that used little of the then-expensive polysilicon that forms the heart of conventional solar modules.

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