The authors described a new approach to commercial product development that would increase speed and flexibility, based on case studies from manufacturing firms in the automotive, photocopier and printer industries.

There are a variety of different print engines for Production Printing MFPs, however in the light end of the Production Printing market, most are based on the large Office MFPs, which themselves are based on photocopier technology as described above.

He was upset by the low quality and high cost of existing patent reproductions, and so he started to develop a system of dry photocopying, which he patented in the late 1930s and which became the first dry photocopier that was commercially practical in 1960.

It's a machine about the size of a photocopier. And what happens is, they take your e mail and every letter in your e mail, they replace with 30 atom cluster one for each letter, A, T, C, and G in DNA. They string them up in the right sequence, and then they send them back to you via FedEx.