A handful of companies had installed on-demand printing machines that spat out single copies of paperback books on request.
The functional elements for each genome are packed into a compressed archive file that can be installed on demand by a user.
The Perseus Books Group was among the first publishers to install print-on-demand equipment, in its warehouse near Boulder, Colo., to print slow-selling titles in small batches instead of letting them fall out of print.
The companies have installed print-on-demand equipment in their warehouses so that early next year they can begin printing and binding their own copies of books available from publishers as digital files, cutting out the printer and distributor.
Publishers such as the Perseus Books Group and distributors, notably the Ingram Book Group's Lightning Source, have also installed print-on-demand equipment, and will compete over where in the supply chain the printing takes place.
For now, he keeps a ten-horsepower Yamaha outboard motor handy, in case of emergency or faint breeze, and just before Thanksgiving he installed an on-demand hot-water system to take the bite out of a coastal New England winter.
Surprisingly, in these select markets, Comcast will provide and install TiVo Premiere units but the On Demand service will be available on units sold at retail as well.
"The basic problem was manufacturers were building and service providers were buying and installing on forecasts for demand that just could not go on forever," said Dean Osborne, who believes an industry rebound could be a year or more away.
On Android, Clueful is available for free, with an option to upgrade for added security, including a real-time web scanner, on-install and on-demand app scanner, and more.
Given point-to-point communication demands having predefined sizes in a network, the problem is to find configurations of demand routes and link facilities installed on each edge satisfying all demands at minimum cost under some constraints.
