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.
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.
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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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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