Its telecoms and chemicals businesses have been sold, and it will probably dispose of its stakes in Hochtief, a construction company, and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, a printing-machine manufacturer, in the next few years.

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The machine is compact at 1.6m high, 0.9m deep and 2.1m wide, which would make it an ideal candidate for Post Offices which often have under-utilised space that could easily house a book-printing machine.

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Johannes Gutenberg transformed his knowledge of wine presses into a printing machine capable of mass-producing words.

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In the print-shop case, the Westminster police and the U.S. Customs Service arrested 15 men and seized an industrial printing press, a shrink-wrap machine and crate upon crate of illegitimate Windows 95 documentation.

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