My printer has more than 3D...
By Cmptrwz
"We need another printer," Taylor said as she came out from the Assassin's Cloak technique, causing Lisa to jump a little.
"Don't DO that!" Lisa complained. "And why do we need another printer? This one works fine."
"It doesn't do what I need it to, and you will yell at me if I upgrade this one."
Lisa stared at Taylor, groaned, and ordered another printer. Because while some part of her had no desire to know the vast majority of her was too curious to not let Taylor go for it.
"What in the world did you do to that poor printer?" Amy asked, staring at the monstrosity that the new printer had become.
"I made it so that it can print on a wider variety of materials," Taylor answered. "Also, it was seriously lacking in the ability to print in higher dimensions, and a number of other features. Though figuring out how to re-write the driver was fairly difficult."
"And why did you need to make a printer do this?" Lisa asked, examining the printer. She wasn't complaining, mind you. Just asking out of curiosity. "Given that you can just make things appear out of nowhere?"
"Because I felt like it," Taylor said. "Oh, and this way you two can get in on the fun too."
"Both perfectly valid, and sensible, reasons," Lisa admitted. "So how do we use it?"
"Well, first you need to decide how you want it to layer the dimensions," Taylor said, producing a pamphlet for them to look at. "As well as what kind of ink you want to use. I don't recommend using the human blood cartridges unless you are intending for some very odd questions to be asked, mind you."
"What in the world is that?" Armsmaster asked, staring at the sheet of paper Metis had just put down on the table. It was registering as perfectly flat and at the same time quite drastically textured.
"You did want a safety sheet and reference document for Raptaur's building-destroyer weapon, correct?" Metis answered. "That is the basic information sheet."
Armsmaster picked the paper up, wincing as he looked at it. He found that it was mildly interactive with printed-on buttons at the bottom of the sheet, each of which brought different content to the surface. The images were also all slightly interactive, which he discovered after he prodded one and the contents spun so he could see the back of the pictured object.
"Can you explain how you made the information sheet?" Dragon asked after watching Armsmaster for a couple of minutes.
"Not really?" Metis said, gesturing at the end of the counter with the computers. "I just used the new printer. How it works isn't something my branch of the Family specializes in, after all."
Two hours later Armsmaster and Dragon left, Dragon trying to figure out how she had ended up with a headache that just wouldn't go away.
As soon as the door had shut and Lisa was certain they couldn't hear her (plus two minutes to be safe) the BBFO office was filled with laughter.