Making order slip ticker tape

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!"

Comments

[Les]

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.

[Geo]

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.