We are already suffering from a mild inflation, thanks to Alan Greenspan's over-printing of the greenback.
But unlike European nations that socialized their currencies and cannot print euros on their own, Japan has complete control over its currency printing press.
The banks take over the money printing duties of the Federal Reserve, help contain the cost of U.S. government borrowing and the Federal Reserve gets some much needed inflation fighting credibility.
But Hewlett-Packard, which is also making a big effort in plastic electronics using inkjet techniques, argues that the advantage of printing over stamping is that it makes it possible to produce customised circuitry more quickly and easily, with changes in design being incorporated instantly.
Although wood, paper publishing and printing grew over the quarter it contracted by 12.9% over the year.
There will be a strong temptation to paper over the loan problem by printing money.
But newspapers and magazines require different printing equipment, so switching over is costly.
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The government can react to this threat by either printing more money or rolling over the deficit to domestic banks.
However, borrowing and printing have one huge advantage over taxation: they make it much easier to disguise the true cost of government while surreptitiously pushing the burden onto future generations.
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The minute control over materials made possible by 3-D printing could definitely make a difference in pre-fabricating materials for construction.
The parties broke campaign silence over news of illegal ballots being found at a printing shop linked to Gerb.
Whether those units of currency come from taxes or a printing press or more debt (through rolling over) is irrelevant.
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The combination of FDM 3D printing and printed electronics technologies can provide benefits over traditional prototyping, manufacturing and field repair processes.
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What makes it tougher is that unlike newsletters, which collect subscription money in advance and then pay the printer's bills over the course of a year, Vulcan pays for printing upfront and then collects from advertisers and distributors.
Athens has buzzed with rumors over the past year that the Bank of Greece was secretly printing drachmas, Greece's pre-euro currency.
Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue declined 3% year over year with a 15.8% operating margin.
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The US has been doing just that this since 2008 and has no qualms to run the money printing presses of Quantitive Easing to keep financial oxygen flowing over its economy.
Remember, five years ago the premise behind all the money printing was that it would be a temporary bridge to get over the difficulties created by banks owning more bad paper then their total capital worth.
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.
You see, even if private banks cease their money printing activities, activities that are currently running at a robust year-over-year rate of 15.2% (see the first table), there is still a near certain swath of inflation to come.
Earlier technologies, from printing to the telegraph, have done likewise, and have wrought big changes over time.
Certainly, the Replicator marks a big step over its predecessor, the Thing-O-Matic, introducing dual-extrusion for two-colored printing and a much larger printing area, letting users create standalone objects roughly the size of a loaf of bread.
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Then there are more existential threats, like a digital generation that favors 99-cent iPad apps over traditional toys, a shrinking number of toy stores and the looming concern that DIY 3-D printing will render premade plastic toys obsolete.
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But, even with exciting modern developments such as 3D printing, it is difficult to believe we will see a big rise in UK manufacturing employment over the next few years - even if we do see that long-awaited rebalancing, and exports and output take off.
After turning over five times in six years, the top job is now held by Gordon Griffiths , former head of commercial printing at Canadian giant Quebecor (nyse: IQW - news - people ).
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