[Das Outsider]

Using the simple and basic food ingredients; flour, sugar, salt, water, and assorted flavorings, a wide variety of food staples such as cookies, sandwich-style pies, and small cakes can be assembled for as long as the "ink" holds out.

So you're saying this technology already exists? I've been trying to turn my computer into a 1,000 watt microwave for the last three months.

Suffice it to say, I can only burn cookies at this point.

[NicknamedBob]

"So you're saying this technology already exists? I've been trying to turn my computer into a 1,000 watt microwave for the last three months."

In a manner of speaking, it exists. Not quite as I have described it, however.

Medical researchers are using modified ink-jet printers to print organs.

Actually, what they are doing is using the accuracy of the printer to lay down a culture of cells onto a substrate which may or may not subsequently dissolve. Such procedures have been used to make a mitral valve for a human heart. (Research is continuing.)

I don't think my idea of using this kind of technique for a vending machine, for example, has yet been developed.