A new trend appeared in Japan. Thanks to the improved 3D printing and scanning technology of the Okuyuki Kobo company the production of small figurines of people made from real models became possible. Now many Japanese families make small figurines of their relatives including children which is rather simple due to quick scanning even of moving subjects like infants or pets.
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Everybody knows that if you want the highest quality of the printing materials you should buy only genuine cartridges specially developed to reach this goal. The producers represent secret ink and toner formulas which best suit printer’s print head technology. Of course, in everyday printing and in purpose to reduce costs we refill our cartridges in the independent repair shops. Recently this month, Lexmark has turned to the the U.S. Supreme Court with a patent dispute v. Impression Products Inc. wanting to know if a patent holder can dictate how you use a product after you buy it. What in general means that the company wants to prevent or restrict illegal refilling of their cartridges.
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Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd. is widely known as a leader in information management providing new technologies helping to improve enterprise content workflows, cloud and IT services. Recently, a new Konica Minolta bizhub™ 458/558 series of premium monochrome office MFPs was being launched and it has replaced the previous bizhub™ 454e/554e series due to the growing demands of the modern offices.
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With all the plans about long lasting space missions including that to the Moon and Mars NASA is thinking how to feed astronauts who take part in these occasions. There are several problems concerned with this one: food can’t be kept fresh for a long time; today’s existing way of space feeding includes freeze-dried “space food”, which requires additional spacecraft resources for refrigeration and freezing; and this kind of food is everyday the same.
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