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Copy machines were too expensive to use for school work. I remember some machine that used a hand powered roller to spit out copies in a pale, blue ink. This
by madengr 7y ago
Copy machines were too expensive to use for school work. I remember some machine that used a hand powered roller to spit out copies in a pale, blue ink. This was late 70’s/80’s.
- root 7y agoA stencil machine. We used it to print the school newspaper. Just by writing this I can smell it.
- jfk13 7y agoAh, the memories! I did a spell of that, too, when a few of us launched a (short-lived) school magazine. We had two options to create the stencil: there was a special machine that used some kind of electrical process (I don't remember details) to scan a printed sheet and "burn" a stencil from it, so you could copy arbitrary originals; or you could cut the stencil directly on a typewriter (with no ribbon), which gave a sharper result -- but you really didn't want to make too many typing errors, there's only so much you can do with stencil correcting fluid.
- Spooky23 7y agoMimeograph.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoYep. I was impressed when our school bought its first electric mimeograph. Until then, they were hand cranked. If you were one of the well behaved students and arrived early enough, a teacher sometimes would let you go with her to the office to crank the machine to produce that day's worksheets.
- vidanay 7y agoI can smell this comment.
- buckminster 7y agoThey were widely used in offices too. Roneo and Gestetner were two common brands in the UK.
- analog31 7y agoAh, I still remember the sweet smell of methanol.