Mimeograph
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A mimeograph machine, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine, is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeogra
A hand-cranked mimeograph machine used in Poland by opponents of the communist regime after 1981.
A Rotary Cyclostyle No. 6 duplicating press
Advertisement from 1889 for the Edison Mimeograph
A wooden Edison's mimeograph size 12"
Duplicating machines
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Duplicating machines were the predecessors of modern document-reproduction technology. They have now mostly been replaced by digital duplicators, scanners, laser printers, and photocopiers, but for ma
Mimeograph
…A mimeograph machine (the term often being abbreviated to mimeo), sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine, is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a copy made by the process is a mimeograph. Mimeographs…
One of the polygraphs used by Thomas Jefferson, a portable version
A James Watt & Co. copying press, in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.
Iron letter copying press, late 19th century, Germany
The Rapid Roller Damp-Leaf Copier in use