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The Zen of Modern Printing
After six weeks focusing on printing, I have come to a realization about printing on paper in a world of instant digital communications: do less the old way, but more the smart way. We're not finished with printing, even 570 years after Gutenberg invented movable type, or 11 centuries after the Chinese printed with carved woodblocks. Information on paper still drives us, despite the promise of Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad. What is the old way of printing? Well, after mentioning Chinese woodblock printing from 1100 years ago, our “old way” is only 30 or so years, near the dawn of personal computers. Way back then, people printed far more than they should, since the information...
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