Some day we will be able to stick our memory media into a slot and order photos printed in one hour. That day is now.
A local grocery store has three machines with which customers can order photo prints from digital media. So today I used one of them to order some prints. Once done I waited for a printout for retrieving the pictures. Nothing happened.
I could see a little sliver of paper sticking out of the slot, but one corner was folded. So I pulled it out as far as I could and unfolded the corner. And the paper flowed. It was reeling and reeling, one after another. It took several minutes, and nine days worth of "Not A Receipt" order slips lay in a single strip on the floor. And there was my little order at the very end.
I scooped up the whole pile, and the people using the adjoining machines must have thought, "Now that guy is ordering some prints!"
That's pretty funny, George. Ain't technology grand?
It really is neat, though, to be able to run down and zip out a few prints so easily.
Posted by: Les | February 20, 2008 at 09:58 PM
Yes it is, Les. It's a fun thing to have access to. I've used it several times at the grocery store when I otherwise would have done without.
Posted by: Geo | February 21, 2008 at 05:29 PM