| Posted by Mutt |
3/26/2005 3:15 PM | remove |
...and getting stoned sniffing the alcohol evaporating from the pages that were printed right before the test you needed to pass.
Actually this printer didn't use the alcohol stuff to print. A master copy was typed or scribed onto a thin flexible wax sheet and mounted on the black roller. The holes that were scribed ow typed into the wax paper let the ink through and onto the paper sheets as they fed through the machine. This one is manually cranked.
Gestetner was one of the major manufacturers.
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| Posted by Lumiere |
7/30/2005 9:30 AM | remove |
We still had our spelling tests off one of these in '91.
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| Posted by strike300 |
4/4/2006 3:03 AM | remove |
We called 'em Ditto Machines. The schools got books full of the "masters" to distribute to the students that went along with the textbooks. The "masters" were only good for 100 copies or so. You could also get blank masters and put 'em through a typewriter. It worked kindof like carbon paper on the back of the sheet you were typing on.
Nowadays there are "duplicators" which are the same except the duplicator can make a master through a process like photocopying and then print 100 pages per minute.
Overall, they're basically a printing press with a wax plate, and they don't take any skill to operate.
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| Posted by atomx |
4/4/2006 3:30 AM | remove |
I just remember the ka-chunk ka-chunk ka-chunk coming from the 'copy/av' room
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| Posted by CopySix |
4/15/2006 5:00 PM | remove |
I loved getting the warm dittos and sniffing the lovely vapours as a kid.
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| Posted by elbowgeek |
4/15/2006 8:03 PM | remove |
Yep, I have memories of my mum running off her tests on those as she was a teacher up until the late 70's. Big, blotchy purple ink letters *grin*.
And yes, she used a Gestetner!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/11/2006 12:04 PM | remove |
man oh man i miss these! remember when the spirit master would get old and the copy totaly un readable!
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| Posted by tmkenney3 |
6/18/2006 10:32 PM | remove |
Interesting to look at, as I sit here, Kinko's employee that I am...
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
6/19/2006 8:18 AM | remove |
Man, I can just almost smell that ink again, that and that "hospital" smell seem like the predominate olfactory imagery I recall from public schools in the 60's.
(of course I went to catholic schools which were gender divided in those days and therefore there was always the smell of a fart lingering in the classrooms)
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| Posted by Zell |
3/31/2007 3:11 AM | remove |
I blame global warming on these.
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| Posted by leafloving4x4gal |
10/19/2007 4:28 PM | remove |
I had nearly forgotten the smell of fresh copies...too funny....
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| Posted by ThePhonedude |
12/26/2012 2:55 AM | remove |
Back in the 90's, my elementary school still used these! As well as 16mm projectors, film strips, and LP records! I miss those days!
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