Right you are, Jean!! Only, in the US the purple/blue stuff was called
something else. Still, you've exactly described both.
Clay
On 4/14/2010 1:37 PM, Jean Nathan wrote:
I used both systems.
Wax stencils cut with a typewriter with the ribbon disabled and
printed on the Gestetner - great for as many copies as you liked, but
the middle of some letters like o's, e' and a's used to fall out so
they were filled in when printed. We used a bottle of something to
paint over and fill in mistakes when typing the stencils.
The other machine was known as Banda. Spirit in the machine removed a
small layer of the purple reversed print and transferred it to the
paper. You could only get a finite number of copies because the purple
ink was transferred, so copies got fainter and fainter until there was
none left to transfer. I had a good turn out during the wonderful
month's holiday I had when DH took himself off to New Zealand in
February/March (what bliss to do what I wanted when I wanted), and
actually came across an unused box of the Banda carbons among the
teaching stuff I hadn't got around to throwing out since I retired in
1997. They went in the trash along with all the rest of the stuff
which was soooooo out of date.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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