As Xerox fiddled with financial engineering, Canon continued to invest in new technologies to gain ground in the copier market, with new methods for printing multiple colours and finer, more efficient inks.

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Multi-function printers are becoming popular with enterprises as they provide combined multiple functions such as printing, fax, photocopying, scanning etc. and as companies upgrade to the new line of printers, we can expect this division to maintain profitability.

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Part of the advantage of 3D printing is the ability to make a variety of individually customised parts at a similar cost to making multiple, identical replicas.

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