Irony

[KK4AMI]

Yup, I can still remember the smell the mimeograph machines put off all these decades later.

Yup, we had to put carbon paper and typewriter ribbons in classified burn bags.

We called it the " Ditto Machine" and the smell was from methanol alcohol I believe. I never took drugs in school, but I usually got high before every test. That might explain my grades. If you want to simulate those good old days just open up a bottle of cheap Russian Vodka and sniff. Don't drink it of course.

[NQ6U]

Ahem. From a person who's done it professionally:

Ditto and Mimeograph were two different processes. Mimeograph used a stencil cut on a typewriter (most of them had a lever that kept the ribbon down for cutting mimeograph stencils) while Ditto used an ink transfer process. Mimeograph copies were black, Ditto were purple.

Both processes have been confined to the dustbin of history by cheap xerography.

[PA5COR]

2 Dutch students now developed printing without ink.
Using a laser and special process the laser burns the text into/on the paper, that could be done before but the laser could burn holes in the paper and the print wasn't black, they solved that problem.
Several printer producers already in talks with them to start producing it in the near future.
Might save a bundle on cartridges...

[WZ7U]

Ahem. From a person who's done it professionally:

Ditto and Mimeograph were two different processes. Mimeograph used a stencil cut on a typewriter (most of them had a lever that kept the ribbon down for cutting mimeograph stencils) while Ditto used an ink transfer process. Mimeograph copies were black, Ditto were purple.

Both processes have been confined to the dustbin of history by cheap xerography.

Well, shit man. I can't be expected to keep all my nomenclature straight can I? Well, can I?

You figured it out easy enough for us though, thanks for the correction. Ditto, that must be what I remember from elementary school. See, effin fumes messed me up ;-)