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What were those copies called? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Today@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm old. When our teacher brought copies to class we would all smell them. What was that called?

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spirit duplicator or colloquially "ditto".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

[–] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ditto! Ditto sheets! Thank you!

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Im slightly less old (albeit still old) and this is my ditto ditto

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There was also mimeo, or some similar spelling, from mimeograph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

Looking over that, I'm not certain those would smell the same way otheroptions did, but at my elementary school, that's what teachers usually called them. If it wasn't that, it was dittos

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mimeos worked differently and didn't smell nearly as strong, but they needed special paper ("twilltone" in the fanzine world) and the stencils and machines were more expensive than their ditto counterparts. You'd use them for large copy runs since a stencil could run off unlimited copies. Ditto masters were basically carbon paper and were good for maybe 30-50 copies depending. About right for a batch of class handouts. Dittos were also relatively clean and convenient to operate. Using a mimeo generally made a mess.

https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Twil-tone

This is also good: https://fancyclopedia.org/wiki/Mimeo