The various pieces would then be lined up and laminated together to form a working print head, aprocess which required HP to have two different manufacturing lines and product designs for low-end and high-end print heads.
One case study found that it takes ten days for a bank to processa simple student loan that should take one day, because the bank has to print out the online forms and courier them to the applicant for signatures, then wait for them to be returned by post only to scan them back into digital form.