Anyone remember this copying method?

[JimboJ]

A friend of mine asked me a question that was bugging him, and now it's bugging me too.

There used to be a process for paper duplication before photocopying was widely available. You would write or type on a sheet of 'special' paper that was then placed in a hand-cranked machine. The text was always light blue I think and had a very distinctive solvent smell.

I've googled this and just can't seem to find it. I know someone out in terb-land must know what I'm talking about.

 

[JimboJ]

Hey thanks SB!!

Gee, that took all of 30 seconds to get an answer!

My brain doesn't hurt as much now

 

[newbieatthis]

I remember we used that in my woodshop class back in the late 1980s, we would get high smelling the solvent. god were we stupid

A friend of mine asked me a question that was bugging him, and now it's bugging me too.

There used to be a process for paper duplication before photocopying was widely available. You would write or type on a sheet of 'special' paper that was then placed in a hand-cranked machine. The text was always light blue I think and had a very distinctive solvent smell.

I've googled this and just can't seem to find it. I know someone out in terb-land must know what I'm talking about.

 

[red]

mimeograph machines - that brings back memories. what about carbon paper copies. anyone still use that stuff?

 

[Meister]

How about blueprinting, love that smell.

Everybody always refers to reading blueprints, but there is no such thing anymore.

 

[baltimoron]

LOL!

This reminds me of Animal House: in the beginning, when they stole the carbon copy of the exam.

 

[shakenbake]

Sorry, my brain is getting slow in my old age.

Must be all that cumlative mimeograph solvent exposure!

Are we ever showing our age! (me and you!)

 

[Dizzyboy]

Mmmmm

Ditto Paper smell...

Thanks for the fond memory. Kids these days are missing out. lol

 

[Mufflicker]

Mimeograph and Ditto where different things. Mimeograph had a wax and fiber stencil that you typed on. It was then put in a mimeograph machine and ink was forces through it from a drum. Dittos produced that purpleist blue output from special carbon paper looking stecils. I remember tons of dittos for home work in the 60's and seventies.