I remember those too! The writng was always bluish, and we did "huff"
the fumes!!
But the machine we printed our newsletters on was something more
"modern". It actually had black ink. The drum of the machine had a pad
that was saturated (from within) with a thick ink. The "stencil" was
clipped onto the machine and then the drum was rotated several times to
prime it. After a couple of rotations, the backing paper was peeled
off, and the printing began. It was possible to save a stencil by
re-applying the backing to the stencil before removing it.
Clay
On 4/14/2010 10:12 AM, Jazmin wrote:
Oooh! I remember those from elementary school in the late 70's! Our
class tests and often our work sheets would be printed on those, and
if they were fresh they were warm and you got vaguely high off the
fumes. No doubt these days it'd be the end of the world that 7 yr olds
were sniffing their tests and giggling. ;)
Heather
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:04 AM, David C COLLYER
<dccoll...@ncable.net.au> wrote:
The first newsletters were typewritten on a special matrix and then run
off on a machine where the ink oozed through the little holes made by the
typepwriter! If I remember correctly, it was called a Mimeograph machine.
Not pretty, but effective!
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