The revenue from ink and toner for business machines is certainly enormous.

Furthermore, the company decided in the 1970s to switch from petroleum-based to soy-based ink, which reduced ground pollution from the printing plant.

It seemed appropriate to call him by a name like everyone else, even if she had raised him from paper and ink, from a dictionary.

The styles within the comic range from conventional pencil and ink through to digital drawing and photo collage.

But mostly, he has said, he taught himself, using mediums from ink to crayon to gouache.

He made them all from wood, ink, paper lithography and paint.

"Blood changes the game from paper and ink," Cranston said.

"But for myself," she said, "I'm much more interested in the results coming from paper and ink."

His only son, Matthew, 25, is a freelance theater critic in London and has little interest in switching from ink to paint.

Preparing to wean themselves from ink could be painful and expensive for many printing companies, however.