How do they work now? I remember back in the 80s working for the corporate secretary's department of a huge multinational corporation that the signature machines used large circular cams that moved a pen holder in two dimensions to actually write a signature. I imagine a pen holding X-Y plotter could do as well.
Congress (and I'm sure the president as well) have auto pen machines that write perfect signatures of whatever they are programmed with.
*used to intern in the Senate
Can confirm--I recall this became a minor scandal when Dubya briefly used an autopen.
How do they work now? I remember back in the 80s working for the corporate secretary's department of a huge multinational corporation that the signature machines used large circular cams that moved a pen holder in two dimensions to actually write a signature. I imagine a pen holding X-Y plotter could do as well.
For real?
Yes and this was in late 2000s. I'm sure the tech has improved since then. Youtube autopen