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

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But when a crucial printing machine broke down recently, he told me he faced a mountain of red tape and delays just to buy in the necessary spare part.

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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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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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These titles will soon be available for printing on demand at every Espresso Book Machine.

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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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To accommodate large format paper without having to build a gargantuan machine, Brother re-designed their paper input and printing system to grab and print paper sideways rotating the input and output trays by 90 degrees so that paper is fed in landscape orientation instead of portrait as is typically the case with other printers.

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By shooting with a moving camera and printing every third frame, he achieves a staccato effect as if the camera were a machine gun.

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