The company also claims the sticks don't need as much packaging as standard laser print cartridges and so the product creates 90% less waste.

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Using the reverse approach, Sian Bonnell, a British photographer, has photographed a jelly mould with a pinhole camera, then digitally scanned the paper negative and produced a laser print.

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Sales of color-laser printers and multi-function devices that copy, print, scan and fax, have provided growth spurts, even as traditional black-and-white printing and copying shrinks.

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Instead, physicians and diagnosticians have to print out the digital images on X-ray-type film or laser paper.

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At the EADS labs in Filton, U.K., researchers demonstrated that they can print out several different metal parts for airplanes with a technology that uses a laser to heat metal powders until they form solid metal shapes.

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Wilhelm Meiners and his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany, are one group working to extend the technology to print reconstructive facial plates and even load-bearing artificial joints, such as hips, which could be customised for each patient.

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