But Fiorina is making her first big bet in printing in a way that could well rile the prickly heir.
With 3-D printing in its infancy, Makerbot is wise to expand the user base rather than steal users from competitors.
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Amateurs, basement inventors and hobbyists with no experience printing in three dimensions can jump right in and start experimenting with minimal investment.
He also said that any additional charges, such as for printing in the library or for science materials, must be "banned outright".
General 3D printing in the home has not arrived yet but that will pick up as prices come down and the technology proliferates.
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When faced with the choice of higher rates or money printing in an under performing economy, it is clear what the choice will be.
While industrialised 3D printing has been around for decades, printing in a variety of materials including ceramics, metal and rubber, the desktop versions are far more limited.
Printing in 3D involves sending a design file to a printer that then forms a solid version of that object by slowly building it up in layers of plastic.
Still, it's hard not to get excited about the direction such a device signals both in the development of an ecosystem for the company and for the future of home 3D printing in general.
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This is why, after an improbable run of 12 years, Monk Magazine unofficially stopped printing in 1999 because, despite my Herculean sales efforts, the ad math of an irregularly published independent print magazine stopped working.
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"We've also got some of the earliest examples of printing in the world, from the 1400s, from Gutenberg and from Caxton and a rare edition of the complete works printed by Kelmscott Press by William Morris, " he added.
In the printing and personal systems group, the company intend to reduce the number of SKUs in printing by 30% and in PCs by 25% by the end of 2014.
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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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When it comes to total debt, the main difference between Ulysses and the USA is that the USA owns, what has been up to this point in time, the most trusted printing press in the world.
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Minneapolis is the fourth-largest printing center in the U.S., according to Printing Industry Midwest, a trade association.
He became general manager of Donnelley's typesetting business in 1984, got his first job running a printing plant in 1987 and his first position running an entire region for Donnelley in 1993.
He became general manager of Donnelley's typesetting business in 1984, got his first job running a printing plant in 1987 and got his first position running an entire region for Donnelley in 1993.
Kodak made something of a splash when it challenged the prevailing business model in the printing world back in 2007.
Revenue was up 20% in software, 7% in enterprise servers, storage and networks and 4% in services, and fell 1% in printing and 3% in Personal Systems Group.
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It has a directory business in the U.K. and since 1995 has operated a printing facility in Poland.
Mr. Boarman, whose first job out of high school was working at a printing company in downtown Washington, said he has a "romantic" attachment to the Printing Office name, but noted that much of the work is electronic nowadays.
There are other variables to watch for too, mainly rising wages, commodity prices (oil and agriculture) and the possible of a QE-III in the U.S., not to mention more from the european currency printing press in the year ahead.
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One of the worlds oldest printing techniques, wooden movable-type printing is maintained in Ruian County, Zhejiang Province, where it is used in compiling and printing clan genealogies.
The tribe obtained a printing press in 1828 to publish the bilingual newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix.
Staples has already announced plans to offer 3-D printing services in some stores.
So let's use the information that we've used strictly for printing before in a cross-media basis.
Carlson resigned her job with a printing company in Austin, Texas, sold her house and made the move.
Weidmann had turned to GE Capital to help it finance a revamp of an abandoned printing plant in Urbana, Ohio.
The second option is the blank check, starting with the ECB printing trillions in euros to buy up sovereign debt.
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