Every week at its warehouse in Menlo Park, California some 10, 000 sheets of stamps, tens of thousands of posters and 20, 000 T shirts--almost every shirt unique and distinct from all the others--roll off the presses, sparkling with freshly printed images of cute kids, Disney characters, landscape shots and catchy tag lines (sample:"Not everything's flat in Lubbock, "reads the chest-high line on one).

FORBES: Zazzle It

He pointed out ancient photos of Kashmiris in formal dress and showed us black-and-white images printed on silver gelatine paper.

BBC: The man in the white tunic

One of the most striking pairings shows two African-American women in tintype, a variant of the wet-collodion process that was popular in the 1860s owing to its cheapness and durability (the images were printed on metal sheets, typically iron).

ECONOMIST: The daguerreotype is back

All films end with a transformation of the artists face into a mosaic of plants and flowers, similar to the images portrayed on the printed material.

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Using the video feed on an iPad, he pointed the device at various printed media and showed how the software brought the images to life on the tablet screen.

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There is also an Automatic Suggestion feature where photos stored on a computer are automatically created into various appealing collages and calendars to appear in a desktop slideshow to help bring awareness to those images that may have been forgotten and should be printed.

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As most doctors don't know how to use those printers, hospitals need engineers to operate the printers and help convert images from computed tomography and other medical equipment to 3-D data that can be printed out.

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PC, tagged images are automatically e-mailed to a list of recipients, posted on a web page, printed out on an inkjet printer, or sent over the Internet to a photo finisher to be printed.

ECONOMIST: Digital photography