Service bureau

[1] Service bureaus are a significant sector within the growing 3D printing industry[2] that allow customers to make a decision whether to buy their own equipment or outsource production.

"[3] If strawberry banana is needed, it is important to ask: To its customers, a service bureau offers a combination of expertise in technology, process and business-domains.

The bureau business model depends on the ability to productize services and deploy them in volume to a large customer base.

As Batch processing systems replaced Tab Equipment,[6] service bureaus, from the mid 1950s,[7] could offer this too.

The 9700 could accept input via direct computer link or from magnetic tape, thus allowing the next step: a service they called Laserlink.