Disclosed is an apparatus and method of acquiring images created by penetration of a radioactive ray. \u201cFreshness\u201d data is included along with each indicium message sent from the meter to the printer, thereby enabling the printer to detect \u201cstale\u201d indicium data, i. The timed media includes streaming audio, streaming video, timed HTML, animations such as vector-based graphics, slide shows, other timed media, and combinations thereof.