In this arrangement, the book-packaging company acts as a liaison between a publishing company and the writers, researchers, editors, and printers that design and produce the book.

Digital technology has blurred the line between copiers and printers, and has made it possible to plug printer-copiers into computer networks.

Actually, the distinctions between printers and copiers have blurred.

Per-page printing costs for almost any monochrome laser printer is far lower than that for an inkjet printer, but per-page printing costs vary between printers.

Any connection between computers and printers and other peripherals over a small area - an office or a home, for example.

In computer networking, it is typically used for communications between network-attached printers, computers and servers, for example by HP in their JetDirect print servers.

As the line between printers and copiers continues to blur, it will be up against the printer giant, the Hewlett-Packard Corporation.

In the future the company hopes to sell a new generation of systems that will begin to blur the distinctions between printers, facsimile machines, scanners and copiers.

Now a battle is shaping up between banks and printers for control of the market, estimated at more than $1 billion a year.

But over the last few years, the lines between printers and copiers have blurred.