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Posted by Phaedrine on June 27, 2006, 9:43 am
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> The things we used to go through to get multiple copies.... I found a
> box of unused mimeograph sheets a few days ago (left over from who
> knows how many years ago when I used to mimeograph nursing exams..)
> ... But the really frightening fact is that this box has survived many
> a house move..
What was the process that did the purple copies that smelled so good?
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Posted by Jenn Ridley on June 27, 2006, 12:18 pm
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>> The things we used to go through to get multiple copies.... I found a
>> box of unused mimeograph sheets a few days ago (left over from who
>> knows how many years ago when I used to mimeograph nursing exams..)
>> ... But the really frightening fact is that this box has survived many
>> a house move..
>What was the process that did the purple copies that smelled so good?
Ditto. We used to do the HS newspaper on a ditto machine.
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Posted by Joy Beeson on June 28, 2006, 9:14 am
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:42:09 -0700, me@invalid.com wrote:
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> (laughing) I had forgotten about copysets... They used to come in all
> sorts of colours.... You are more brave than I .. I would fear getting
> that carbon on the fabric, and not being able to get it all back out..
The kind I'm speaking of came only in black. The paper came in white
or yellow. The carbon is a very thin coat on tissue paper, and the
marks don't rub off any more than pencil marks do.
"All sorts of colors" sounds like ditto masters -- like a copyset in
construction, but thick high-quality paper and a carbon with a thick
layer of color. I don't recall seeing any black, but I think it
existed. Only the purple would give you a reasonable run. I remember
using blue and red when I made ditto masters for the covers for the
school paper.
(An honor I earned by being lousy at typing: the teacher assigned me
a page with almost no typing on it. The school paper was part of the
lessons then; the content was generated under the supervision of
various teachers (or, in the case of reports on the first six grades,
by the teachers) and the second-year typing class laid it out and
copied it on office machines.) (We also addressed a bunch of
envelopes for the school board once. A valuable lesson: we had been
taught to use "R.D." as an abbreviation for "Rural Route" -- but the
recipients of the letters would have thought that an insulting typo,
so when typing real envelopes, we used "R.R.")
Joy Beeson
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Posted by Karen Maslowski on June 28, 2006, 4:51 pm
The purple ones were called Gstetener. There was a master, and then the
copies came out with purple type and pictures, etc. I can still smell
the aroma of the purple mimeographed sheets they handed out for tests.
Joy Beeson wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:42:09 -0700, me@invalid.com wrote:
>
>> (laughing) I had forgotten about copysets... They used to come in all
>> sorts of colours.... You are more brave than I .. I would fear getting
>> that carbon on the fabric, and not being able to get it all back out..
>
> The kind I'm speaking of came only in black. The paper came in white
> or yellow. The carbon is a very thin coat on tissue paper, and the
> marks don't rub off any more than pencil marks do.
>
> "All sorts of colors" sounds like ditto masters -- like a copyset in
> construction, but thick high-quality paper and a carbon with a thick
> layer of color. I don't recall seeing any black, but I think it
> existed. Only the purple would give you a reasonable run. I remember
> using blue and red when I made ditto masters for the covers for the
> school paper.
>
> (An honor I earned by being lousy at typing: the teacher assigned me
> a page with almost no typing on it. The school paper was part of the
> lessons then; the content was generated under the supervision of
> various teachers (or, in the case of reports on the first six grades,
> by the teachers) and the second-year typing class laid it out and
> copied it on office machines.) (We also addressed a bunch of
> envelopes for the school board once. A valuable lesson: we had been
> taught to use "R.D." as an abbreviation for "Rural Route" -- but the
> recipients of the letters would have thought that an insulting typo,
> so when typing real envelopes, we used "R.R.")
>
> Joy Beeson
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Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
www.sewstorm.com
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Posted by Kate Dicey on June 28, 2006, 5:18 pm
Karen Maslowski wrote:
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> The purple ones were called Gstetener. There was a master, and then the
> copies came out with purple type and pictures, etc. I can still smell
> the aroma of the purple mimeographed sheets they handed out for tests.
I remember writing on those bloody things... Type? Coo, there's posh!
We could never get the office staff to type them for us! I thought it
was dead posh when I got to a school where the office would type up your
worksheets, and the Gstetner machine was ELECTRIC! No more tennis elbow
and strained wrists from producing 500 exam papers!
Gstetner sheets came in lots of colours: I remember producing
multi-coloured sheets and drawings for worksheets by mix and match
playing with those things. And the copy stuff would get on your clothes
and stain FOREVER.
And then we got computers and the world was a whole nother shape...
Didn't smell the same, though.
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> box of unused mimeograph sheets a few days ago (left over from who
> knows how many years ago when I used to mimeograph nursing exams..)
> ... But the really frightening fact is that this box has survived many
> a house move..