Dec
20
Filed Under (uncategorized) by Meredith on 20-12-2007

Does anybody remember the “create a card” machines that used to be in greeting card shops? I remember one of these from when I was a kid, because the store in the mall where I lived had one. It was a device that was about the size of an arcade game, maybe a little larger. On the top there was a touch screen where you chose the style of card you wanted and punched in the name of the person it was for, your own name, etc. They had all different kinds of cards - birthday (you typed in the age), Valentine’s, congratulations, thank you, etc. Once you had finished designing your card, you hit “Print” and then you got to watch your card being printed through a window below the touch screen. The printing worked kind of like a pet tag engraver, if you’ve ever seen one of those. The machine would go to the right side, get a colored pen, and go back to the card surface and rapidly color everything in the card that was that color. Then it would go back to the right, get another colored pen, go back to the center, and do that color. I wish I could remember what the name of it was, because I’m having a hard time finding any information about it! Does anybody else remember these?