Thus, the Mimeograph has the capability of producing nice, crisp black printing of similar quality to an actual printing press. Then, like a printing press, the rotating drum picks up a sheet of paper and impresses the ink on the page. The ink is squeezed out through the drum and squirts out through those letter-shaped holes, similar to silkscreening. The drum has a fabric outer cover with an ink dispenser inside. The Mimeograph works by producing a rather straightforward stencil - a thin sheet with letter-shaped holes in it - which is wrapped around a drum. Thomas Edison patented the process in 1876, and office technology innovator A B Dick licensed the process and developed it into a useful machine. The Mimeograph process has the same pedigree as the light bulb and the record album. The two processes are quite similar, but about as different as an inkjet printer is from a photocopier. Unfortunately, she was close but not quite right: this is a Mimeograph, the teacher’s lounge compatriot of the Ditto machine. She had visions of fuzzy purple-text pages becoming our regular method of correspondence with family and friends, if only for that famous post-printing chemical smell. “Oh, a Ditto machine - remember that smell?!?” Wifey exclaimed. The fun part of this setup is getting to show off all the neat things we bought while the other wasn’t looking. The auction we went to in South Dakota last spring had two rings, so Wifey and I split up to do our buying.
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