Verdi, a services union, is already seeking pay rises of 6.5% for some sectors, including printers, shop-workers and post-office staff.
Teams of horses drew huge rolls of paper to printers' shops or bales of cotton and wool to textile mills.
There is also a market in fake voter registration cards, which are run off in printers' shops in Peshawar, across the border in Pakistan, reportedly at 23 cents apiece.
Pierre Rilly, 42, who runs a printer shop near Paris, said: "In Paris we have no regrets.
Instead, we'll have two kinds of communal 3D printer shops.
In a previous article, Jon made the point that "communal 3D printer shops" will serve the majority of future needs.
Hopefully, you followed along with our coverage of the show, where we went 3D printer shopping with Martha Stewart and checked out one-wheeled skateboards and ushered in a new era of hardware startup competitions with CES Hardware Battlefield.
A communal 3D printer and shop space at the base would be good too.
This is the cosy dream of my creative nest, the reality is a crumbling old printer's shop in east London's outer reaches.
And what could be more modern than Quixote's tour of a printer's shop in Barcelona, where the knight discovers copies of an unauthorized and mendacious version of his own history?
At the remains of the five-storey Caribbean Market, mechanical diggers tear through shattered concrete and tangled wire, while workers load everything from tins of beans to printers into shopping trolleys, under protection from Filipino soldiers.
