I worked for a printer distributor many years ago. We sent out a press release on behalf of one of our vendors about a new product.

The automated printer shredder for high security environments. It was a mock up we made in engineering that had a big dot matrix printer which had a feed that came out of a sound absorbing printer hood and went across the cover and then fed down into a slot which we claimed was a paper shredder. So you could read it and then it would be instantly destroyed for security. We pitched it as ideal for the Military and other sensitive markets.

I guess we could sell a few to Columbia and Putin these days, maybe we should look into actually making it!

It got some good press coverage. We even had a few enquiries.

(The vendor who's name we used phoned us a couple of weeks later asking how sales were going and professing not to realise that they actually made that product)


Everyone loves a Morgan. Even me, unless it's broken again.