But as Curle was trimming costs, Klug had figured out a way to develop a new printing process that would cut the time to just 90 minutes.
For companies creating new products, 3D printing can make it easier to design and test new concepts, and decrease the time to market.
The average cost of printing new notes is far below the face value of the notes.
But a breakthrough came in 1997 when new genetic finger printing techniques offered fresh hope.
Glitches with a new finger-printing system meant that voting continued into Saturday in some parts of the country.
We coined a phrase, "The new business of printing, " which was the transformation of the commercial print or the offset world to the digital world.
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.
Cubify.com provides more easy printing options for new users with 3D apps that generate free print files and an entire 3D printing marketplace of items to choose from.
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And finally, only in the nutty Internet age could something old-school such as printing be new again.
Elsewhere Hurd sees new growth opportunities in printing, HP's most profitable arm.
By printing out new cheat sheets as often as every game, teams aren't even vulnerable if an old copy falls into enemy hands.
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Among other positive developments have been the refurbishment of school buildings, the printing of new school textbooks and the provision of free stationary to pupils.
It is possible that the affordability and new capabilities of 3D printing will change the way products are manufactured, even products for the old-fashioned energy industry.
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Printing your new information on a card can be transformative.
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Experts like Joris Peels, creator of the first 3D printer for children, agrees that grade school kids are ideally suited to the brave new world of 3D printing.
It said it had now found irregularities such as cases of over voting and instances when people not registered by the new biometric finger-printing system were able to vote.
After all there is much anxiety in financial capitols about the future of the Euro as well as the feeling that the almost constant printing of new dollars to keep America running portends a terrible crisis down the road.
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In October, 3D-printing startup Shapeways opened its New York production facility in Long Island City, Queens, the biggest consumer-focused 3D printing factory in the world.
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"Essentially the printing is nothing new, it is about what happens after, " he added.
American manufacturers are recapturing some markets once lost to imports, and pioneering new processes such as 3D printing.
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There is the cost of printing and pressing new notes and coins.
The new plan would be ostensibly printing of greenbacks by the Fed and would be raw-commodity market bullish, including bullish for gold and silver markets.
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"Essentially the printing is nothing new, " Tibbits told the BBC.
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Before long Drumm read a story about Makerbot, a startup based in New York making affordable 3D printing machines, and within months he had saved up enough money to buy his own 3D printer.
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That's partly because it has never stopped printing critical copy on new exhibitions, film and performing arts.
The Bank of Japan is under pressure from Shinzo Abe's new government to expand its money printing.
However, it has begun to reinvent itself and find new opportunities, namely in the printing and enterprise groups.
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According to the turnaround plan, HP will re-focus on its core printing business by introducing new and innovative products.
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The most significant may be noticed by the fewest travellers: many new planes manufactured today use 3D printing for at least some of their components.
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