Anyone know what this is?

[Yavin4]

[dweller]

1. Memeograph machine

Or however it’s spelled


✌🏻

[Mikey1cat]

16. Close

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[C_U_L8R]

2. It smells goooooooood

[AltairIV]

10. weird, but I agree

[C_U_L8R]

13. My entire secondary school experience summed up here

[snowybirdie]

3. Multilith machine

Early copier before zero. The solution could make you high. I've heard

[CareyOn]

4. A mimeograph machine?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. That's an old hand-crank wet paper copier

You made ink stencils, and the machine used alcohol to wet the ink and xfer it to blank paper. Circa 1970s.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. They were also around in the '50s and '60s.

[cayugafalls]

6. Mimeograph

[DaBronx]

7. A mimeograph machine

Used one in the 70s. Love, love, loved the smell!

[Dave in VA]

8. As a retired educator

I have used these machines many, many times. It was a miracle when the electric machine replaced the old hand crank ones. Also, I loved the smell of freshly printed sheets.

Lots of memories in that pic.

[Eugene]

9. The mimeograph machine at my school was fully automatic, no cranking.

Early to mid 1970s.

[mike_c]

11. I remember those!

Loved that fresh ink smell. I only recall it duplicating in blue ink. I wonder whether a black ink was available instead.

[Sneederbunk]

12. That's where my grade school and high school tests came from.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. i remember going with mom to her school when she was teaching. wed go in the evening and run copies of

documents off . the sound is forever burned into my brain. ka chunk a . ka chun ka. and THAT smell of the ink

[hunter]

17. Trademark name: Ditto machine. Otherwise, spirit duplicator.

When I was teaching the school's actual Xerox machine was kept in a locked glass-walled room visible to the school secretary. Teachers were only allowed 40 copies per semester, which wasn't even worth requesting.

Teachers used the Ditto machines by the teacher's lounge or those assigned to each department, or we spent our own money to make copies at strip-mall copy shops.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Mimeograph?

The ink color rings a bell.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

19. Yes! Love that SMELL! Annnnnnd.....

does anyone know the name of THIS BEAST?



I typed on that thing for two years in the early 70's. Had a punched roll of paper tape that corresponded to the letters typed. I'd box them up every day and ship to the main office in NYC.

It was a noisy beast and you couldn't correct a letter.