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I designed it in Microsoft paint for my buddy and lab partner Francesco. Frank used to work for the Langauge Lab at Seton Hall: scanning old, and out of print language texts for PDF files and such. Anyway, he though it would be funny to have a bootlegging print company. "Millions" he used to joke; "We'll make millions copying and selling these rare Chinese texts."