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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010410</journal-id>
      <journal-title>NIP &amp; Digital Fabrication Conference</journal-title>
      <abbrev-journal-title>nip digi fabric conf</abbrev-journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2169-4451</issn><issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society of Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2013.29.1.art00003_1</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2169-4451(20130101)2013:1L.3;1-</article-id>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Printing Evolution in a World Dominated by Mobile Devices</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>McCoog</surname>
            <given-names>Phillip</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>01</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2013</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>3</fpage>
      <lpage>3</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>&#x201C;Printing is dead now that we have these new devices.&#x201D; We've all heard that said. &#x201C;Young people don't want to print anymore!&#x201D; We've heard that endless times. &#x201C;Office work is changing so printers will become obsolete.&#x201D; Yup, old
 news. &#x201C;The way people take and share pictures make printing photos unnecessary.&#x201D; Way too many times! &#x201C;Communication and people have evolved that paper is just pass&#xE9;&#x201D; Volumes have been written on this! Oh wait &#x2013; you thought I was talking about
 recent news with mobile devices and wearables. I was talking about the last several compute revolutions and the pundits predictions on printing. They were wrong before (sort of) and they are wrong again (sort of).</p>
      </abstract>
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