There was a "question mark" over 2, 167 ballot papers due to be delivered by printers to the Royal Mail for dispatch on 23 April, said Leeds City Council.
Gross profit increased 69%, attributable to higher revenue and gross profit margin expansion of 350 basis points over the prior-year quarter to 51.8%, driven by printers and materials gross profit margin improvement.
An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers.
His writing was repeatedly censored, and his greatest work had to be published in France, where it was set by French printers, who introduced thousands of typos into the text.
In 2010 a team of researchers from Washington State University found that artificial regolith containing silicon, aluminium, calcium, iron and magnesium oxide could be used by 3D printers to create solid objects.
They said that by using stereolithography, their printer could offer "layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with" the existing technique used by budget printers, which melt plastic and squeeze it through a nozzle to build up each layer of an object.
Archant Print, which produces four daily papers and about 60 weekly titles, said it wanted to save money by using contract printers.
Similarly, Lexmark managed to reduce the weight of its packaging for computer printers by 26%, leading to a dramatic reduction in the energy used in its product manufacturing.
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You could probably design rules that would prevent Steve Jobs from cadging an extra four bucks a share from his options, but what's the point if all the savings would be sucked away by lawyers and financial printers?
Worries about Ukrainian press freedom emerged during the run-up to the country's parliamentary election in March, when one opposition newspaper folded after a boycott by state-owned printers, and the country's only decent television news programme was mysteriously taken off the air.
The printers, operated by robots, would use soil from the Moon, known as regolith, to build the layered cover.
Instead of bashing, bending and cutting material the way it always has been, 3D printers build things by depositing material, layer by layer.
Nearly all of Hewlett-Packard's printers are made by someone else.
All 3D printers are run by software.
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Although the size of printable parts is limited for now by the size of 3D printers, the EADS group believes that bigger systems are possible, including one that could fit on the 35-metre-long gantry used to build composite airliner wings.
Last week US company Deep Space Industries (DSI) announced plans to use asteroid material for manufacture by harvesting them and using 3D printers sent into space.
Executives in blue jeans sit cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by big boy toys like 3D printers and large tables with Exacto knives and foam core for people to congregate and make fast, rough prototypes.
Since its incorporation three decades ago, Adobe has set its sights on creating software applications that were ahead of their time, starting with the PostScript page description language that was immediately picked up by Apple for use in its printers.
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He is encouraged, not discouraged, by Dell's brash move into printers, where it confronts entrenched Hewlett-Packard (see story, p. 76).
Most succeeded by either dominating the local market (most of the richest people in China now lead domestically-focused consumer goods, real estate or Internet companies), or assembling PCs, phones, components, tablets, printers or other gadgets designed by overseas firms.
The printers follow the shape of the model by stacking layer upon layer of molten plastic to produce the items.
His computers, printers, and other accessories were made by a mash-up of manufacturers from Dell and Lenovo to Brother and HP.
According to Makerbot, the most well known in a crop of companies developing low cost 3D printers, the technology is being used by NASA engineers to develop parts for models, including for the Mars Rover, Curiosity.
That lead was built by the more than 4, 500 DocuColor 2000 series printers installed to date, compared with probably fewer than a couple of hundred or so NexPress systems.
It arrived by the 9.30pm delivery that night, was corrected, caught the last collection at the Highgate post office at half-past midnight, and the printers had a revised galley on the desk by 9.30am.
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People weren't printing out as many photos, and if they did it was generally cheaper and easier to have them done by one of the photo services with higher-end printers, such as Wal-Mart or Shutterfly.
At Cornell University, researchers are experimenting with using 3D printers to print food that could be eaten by astronauts in space, and scientists in Edinburgh successfully 3D-printed embryonic stem cells for the first time, demonstrating how 3D-printing technology could one day eliminate the need for organ donation.
By the end of this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.
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Existing 3-D printers, also called rapid prototyping machines, build structures layer by layer.
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