This may not be news to many of you but it surely was to me. You might be interested.
While visiting in a small town in Ohio last week, I had the responsibility to obtaini a suitable birthday cake for no less than 8 people attending a dinner and who were celebrating their respective birthdays throughouit July and August.
I had dreamed up some ideas for what I thought might be an interesting decoration scheme for this "joint" cake. And, just to make it easier to communicate those ideas to the baker, I did an AW sketch on my trusty Pismo of names and dates and colorful icons for each person.
What I learned was that this small bakery had a scanning device that could take my AW printout and reproduce it exactly,
in icing, no less, on a sheet of sugar paper. The resulting design was then applied to the cake, for spectacular results. Absoutely unexpected and sensational. When I exclaimed that I had never heard of such a device, and inquired about what it was called, I was told it was a C-O-M-P-U-T-E-R.
Now that I'm back in the
oh-so-sophisticated SF Bay Area, I'm going to see if anyone has kept up around here with the standards set in Smalltown, Ohio!
We've had some discussions on TS about printer cartridges and refills and such. Think of red, white, blue and yellow icing, no less! Now,
that would be a cartidge.
