The company sells a 3-D printer called the Thing-O-Matic, which carves plastic models from digital, user-created blueprints.

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Designed for portability, the Z340 combines a 14.0 megapixel digital camera with a ZINK-enabled printer using the ink-free Zero Ink Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging to deliver a 3x4'' print - the same size as the classic Polaroid photos that captured millions of special memories over the past 63 years.

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Meanwhile, printing the digital images with an ink-jet printer at home brings back fond memories of darkrooms under the stairs with trays of developer, acetic acid and hypo.

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By the early 2000s, digital camera picture quality was getting very good, broadband Internet was coming on strong, and inexpensive photo quality printer meant there was now a high quality end-to-end system for digital photography.

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We also discovered some new names, like Nigerian-born portraitist Toyin Odutola, 27, painter and sculptor Lucien Smith, 23, and Artie Vierkant, 26, a digital artist who makes abstract pieces suffused with light and bright colors, using Photoshop, a large-scale printer and pieces of layered plastic.

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