Heidelberger Druck, by contrast, charges a flat fee-for-service, which can be cheaper for most commercial printers and less hassle.

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Most printers look for a firmware update every time they receive a job but, for some reason, they rarely check the validity of an incoming file.

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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.

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At the turn of the 20th century, letterpress posters advertised boxing matches, circuses and carnivals, but most print shops junked their clunky letterpress printers for offset units in the 1950s or for computers in the 1980s.

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In most offices, where there's often a local area network installed for sharing files and printers, sneakernets disappeared years ago.

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