These printers can churn out objects to make prototypes quickly — a fork, wall hooks, mugs, a luggage clasp — by printing thousands of layers of wafer-thin slices of plastics, ceramics or other materials.
The court also required the Democrats to fork over $800,000 to help underwrite the costs of printing new ballots and other expenses that will arise from the decision.
The tables are unadorned: no tablecloths, breadbaskets, or bouquets, just knives and forks and paper menus, printed daily, which warn about the chefs' resistance to requests for any alterations to the food.
I, like many others, couldn't be bothered to fork out eight quid for a festival programme, but handily some clever bugger had printed the lineup off the internet, photocopied it and was making a killing at £1 a pop.
Newspapers were printed in St .Paul, Minnesota and flown on a charter plane to Grand Forks for deliveries.
While we can't yet download and print a fork or a car, it's nice to know we can see and feel our little ones in perfect detail with just a little plastic and a digital file.
Everything you produce can be customised to your requirements, whether it's pastry cutters to make the holly for your Christmas cake exactly the shape you want, or to print 100 forks of a dining set with each one different from the last," he says.
In a print advert for a Betty Crocker pie, a version with the fork placed on the right triggered a 20% higher "purchase intent" than one with the fork on the left (because most people eat with their right hands).
Grand Forks' daily newspaper, the Grand Forks Herald, continued to publish papers throughout the flood despite having its printing facilities destroyed.
