The problem was, it involved some professional printing that would cost a few thousand dollars, which none of us had.
Interestingly, it was the dawn of the age of printing that lay behind the labor-intensive, hand-executed work of the istoriato majolica artists.
"I've already written above about 3D printing that is potentially hugely disruptive but another one is the rapid increase in life extension over the next 20 years.
In a lab in Youngstown, Ohio, the president said, "Workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost anything".
The Business of Fashion explains how the SXSW festival explored technological innovations like 3-D printing that will affect the fashion industry.
It has since devised new methods of printing that do not make use of it, but the lawsuits were costly to defend.
The book is slightly slap-dash, with recipes that can at times seem padded (two pages on arugula salad with olive oil and shaved Parmesan!) and black-and-white printing that does no justice to the legendary Christopher Hirsheimer's photographs.
"A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything," Mr. Obama said.
Though not widely used today, the letterpress technique, relief printing that has been around since the 15th century, has seen a resurgence in recent decades as a means of producing unique designs.
The new emphasis on devices over software reflects a much larger shift in the start-up and tech world, driven by tools like crowdfunding and 3-D printing that make it cheaper, faster and easier to create prototypes.
Engineers in Rolls-Royce's additive-manufacturing division, led by Neil Mantle, have been making experimental bearing housings for the Trent using a version of 3D printing that employs a beam of electrons to melt layers of powdered alloy.
