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The most versatile copying system ever developed is Eastman Kodak's Wholographik. Turn the print over, cut along the lines with ordinary scissors, distribute the pieces - and each of up to 24 sections will return up to 98% of the base information!
Technovelgy from Stand on Zanzibar, by John Brunner.
Published by Del Rey in 1968
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Compare to Philip K. Dick's Agfom potent-shot from his 1964 novel Clans of the Alphane Moon.

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