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while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.
Send mail to mi...@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info.
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From: Terry Fassburg <tfas...@freepcmail.com>
My boss, after reminiscing about the smell of freshly mimeographed papers,
bought an old mimeograph machine on ebay. Does anyone know where I can
obtain fluid and thermal masters?
Terry Fassburg
281.996.0241 (home)
713-524-5444 (office)
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EDTECH Editor-Gaynor
I, too, remember the smell of freshly mimeographed documents...in fact I
worked in a commercial mail house (lettershop) which was still running mimeo
COMMERCIALLY in 1971!
A quick search on Altavista for "mimeograph stencils" turned up 37
references (including an index to the leaflets of the Free Speech Movement
at Berkeley (1964) and just what you want:
Repeat-O-Type Corp (http://www.repeatotype.com/mimeo.html) is still in
business, and still selling the "old stuff!"
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> x-From: Terry Fassburg <tfas...@freepcmail.com>
>
> My boss, after reminiscing about the smell of freshly mimeographed papers,
> bought an old mimeograph machine on ebay. Does anyone know where I can
> obtain fluid and thermal masters?
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EDTECH Editor-Beil
Ahh yes, the scent of fresh dittos.
How I loved them as a child.
The purple printing drove me wild.
Children today enjoy holding the warm photocopies on their faces. I'm not
sure why, maybe it's a Pennsylvania thing.
I thought mimeograph machines were gotten rid of due to environmental concerns.
Thanks
> > x-From: Terry Fassburg <tfas...@freepcmail.com>
> >
> > My boss, after reminiscing about the smell of freshly mimeographed papers,
> > bought an old mimeograph machine on ebay. Does anyone know where I can
> > obtain fluid and thermal masters?
Philip Hess - Pittsburgh, PA USA - Substitute Teacher
E-mail: philip @ icubed.com
Phil's Place (my web site) http://mav.net/phil
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EDTECH Editor-Beil
You're confusing Rexo/Ditto with mimeograph. The purple print was the
product of a volatile spirit (hence "spirit duplicator" as the general term)
which dissolved solid ink from a master. Because the ink was a deposit on
the master, the number of copies was limited, and could be reduced by too
heavy a fluid flow. Environmentally unsound as well, probably.
There were also, later on, there were thermal machines that could make a
master without stylus or typewriter.
Mimeograph, on the other hand, used true ink--semi-solid for some models,
semi-liquid for others. The ink was inside the drum, oozing out through an
absorbent pad on the surface of the drum. The image master (stencil) was a
wax-coated piece of fine mesh. With stylus or typewriter, the wax was
"disturbed" or removed, allowing the ink to pass through to the paper.
Number of copies was more or less unlimited; we had some forms on carefully
stored stencils that had been run once a month for over fifteen years. My
bosses estimated that some of them had produced over 100,000 copies. Later
technology for mimeo included paste ink, automatic inkers, and a
thermal/electronic stencil maker (Gestefax was the Gestetner brand) that
scanned an image and "burned" it onto a stencil (of somewhat different
material from the traditional wax coating.) A.B. Dick, Gestetner and Roneo
were among the leading brands, with the first two holding nearly the entire
lettershop market. Roneo was more likely to be found in schools or company
offices.
Wow...you can't believe how vivid my memories are of tending four AB Dicks
(300 and 400 series) simultaneously...and packing the output as they ran.
Thanks for the chance to dwell upon the past...
> X-From: Philip Hess <phi...@icubed.com>
> Ahh yes, the scent of fresh dittos.
> How I loved them as a child.
> The purple printing drove me wild.
>
> Children today enjoy holding the warm photocopies on their faces. I'm not
> sure why, maybe it's a Pennsylvania thing.
>
> I thought mimeograph machines were gotten rid of due to
> environmental concerns.
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