The price compares favorably to commercial photo-printing services from companies like Eastman Kodak (nyse: EK - news - people ), which cost around 29 cents per print, but they're not as cheap as Snapfish , which charges 19 cents including shipping, according to Merrill Lynch.
InnerWorkings ( INWK - news - people ), a Chicago firm that farms out companies' printing jobs to the lowest bidder.
After December 2006, the law will prohibit companies from printing the expiration date or more than the last five digits of a credit or debit card on a hard copy receipt.
But the recent case of Polestar, a British printing group, showed that companies can be refinanced smoothly even if hedge funds are involved.
After these moves and the shutdown of its desktop-printer unit last September, Kodak's future is now pinned on selling printing equipment and services to companies.
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There may be new investment opportunities as companies applying standard inkjet printing techniques to reduce the cost of making solar modules or batteries continue to make progress.
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Instead, today anyone wanting access to 3D printing services can get it from companies like Shapeways, Sculpteo, or Materialise, each of which can put the type of high-end 3D printing technology into the hands of creative types required to make anything from toys and puzzles to jewelry and clothing.
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For companies creating new products, 3D printing can make it easier to design and test new concepts, and decrease the time to market.
In fact, its even more true for Japan because a weaker currency caused by printing money has major economic benefits for Japanese companies whom will now be able export more.
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This is bad news for companies who once hoped that e-mail would be a cheap, effective means of marketing new products and services, and content companies who once hoped to save on printing costs by hawking newsletters and other material through cyberspace instead of the mailbox.
Newspaper companies are using less of the stuff, printing fewer words on smaller, thinner pages.
On top of owning a printing press, the U.S. bypasses credit card companies and goes straight to other large countries for financing.
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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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These companies are exploring new business models, the benefits of printing books on demand and the various forms of e-book delivery.
Even with so many companies rising to prominence, the dream of truly mainstream 3D printing still feels a ways off -- if that is indeed where we're inevitably heading.
And going forward into a world of little economic growth, where money printing and debasing the currency is the standard, I only want to own companies that consistently grow free cash and use that cash to shrink the float.
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To seize these opportunities media companies need to outsource certain functions, as the San Francisco Chronicle did with printing, and then reallocate resources to news gathering.
Today smart companies can begin moving toward discontinuing internal networks for things like storing, retrieving and printing sales documents.
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Those companies participate in a wide variety of markets: medical products, biomedical research, printing, dental products, forestry and investing.
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The two companies, working independently, are each working on a process use 3-D printing to manufacture some of the more delicate parts of aircraft, according to Technology Review.
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The studios -- and Technicolor and Deluxe, the two primary companies that "print" films -- certainly appreciate this cost savings, since printing and shipping thousands of copies of a major release wasn't a trivial expense.
The insurance lobby has been fighting the SEC tooth and nail on this because no one would buy these profit printing policies if they actually understood them under the light of the disclosures the SEC wanted the insurance companies to make.
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