Like all sho, it is black ink on white paper, and written from top to bottom, right to left, as is traditional Japanese (one of the many differences with Western languages that no doubt confounded Francis Xavier).

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The advisory that I spoke about at the top of this briefing is -- the ink is still not dry on it.

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It doubled revenue from 1993 to 1997, went from nowhere to a top slot in PCs and has sold 100 million ink-jet printers.

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Along the top edge, you'll find the e-ink display and a two-way power switch -- slide it to the left and Ruby behaves like a secure hotspot, slide it to the right and it's a public access point.

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The document to be copied was placed on top of a sheet of chemically moistened paper, then rolled through a press, which brought the ink of the original through the thin sheet so it could be read from the other side.

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