Improves printing for USB-based Brother and Canon printers.

ENGADGET: Mac OS X 10.5.6 now available via Software Update

Founded in 1986, South Carolina-based 3D Systems manufactures 3D printers, print materials and custom parts.

FORBES: 3D Systems Can Still Manufacture More Growth

Both EOS and Stratasys, a company based in Minneapolis which makes 3D printers that employ plastic-deposition technology, use their own machines to print parts that are, in turn, used to build more printers.

ECONOMIST: 3D printing

At the laboratory of Aurora, a San Diego-based firm specializing in such mass screening, little needles squirt a billionth of a liter of a potential drug into 3, 456 millimeter-wide wells. (The squirters come from another silicon-based business: ink-jet printers.) In the wells are biologically interesting molecules, such as enzymes, or cells that may present targets to new medicines.

FORBES: A hail of silver bullets

Should Xerox have put out a special order of laser printers for Lawrence Livermore, based on the old 7000 copier?

NEWYORKER: Creation Myth