Dickeson--Here There Be Dragons

"Obviously," you chuckle. "Can't compare them to each other." Yet we call them both "printing," don't we? Both are members of the 40,000 business entities that comprise the "Printing Industry" for census classification. What's the problem?

Between those extreme models of web printing and document copying lies a whole range of differences in focus and concentration on productivity and liquidity management. Both represent duplicating information onto paper. But that's as far as business similarity goes, isn't it?