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  What is a mimeograph machine?
A mimeograph machine is a mechanical duplicator that produces copies by pressing ink onto paper through openings cut in a stencil.
Mimeograph machines have been largely replaced by more sophisticated technology, but many are still being used.
Special mimeograph or duplicator ink is applied as appropriate to the particular machine.
www.sil.org /lingualinks/literacy/referencematerials/glossaryofliteracyterms/WhatIsAMimeographMachine.htm   (163 words)

  
  Mimeograph machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The modern version of a mimeograph is called a digital duplicator and contains a scanner, a thermal head for stencil cutting, and a large roll of stencil material entirely inside the unit, making the stencils and mounting and unmounting them from the print drum automatically, making it almost as easy to operate as a photocopier.
The term "Mimeograph" was originally protected as a trademark, however over time the term became generic and is now an example of a genericized trademark [1].
Mimeographs were used extensively in the production of fanzines in the middle 20th century, before photocopiers became widespread.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mimeograph   (835 words)

  
 Mimeograph machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Gestetner, Riso, and other companies still make and sell highly automated mimeograph-like machines externally similar to photocopiers, as the mimeo process is faster and less expensive than xerography for moderate to large print runs, although the image quality is inferior.
"Mimeograph" was formerly a trademark and is now an example of a genericized trademark [http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/M0306800.html].
Mimeographs were used extensively in the production of fanzine s in the middle 20th century, before photocopiers became widespread.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mimeograph_machine.html   (1135 words)

  
 Repeat-O-Type Mimeograph Supplies
This is a listing of the Mimeograph Products that Repeat-O-Type has available.
All products shown here may be purchased directly from Repeat-O-Type at the prices shown here.
Each stylus is designed for easy writing and drawing on stencils.
www.repeatotype.com /mimeo.html   (196 words)

  
 Mimeograph machine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
During the declining years of the mimeograph, some people made stencils with computers and (Click link for more info and facts about dot-matrix impact printers) dot-matrix impact printers.
"Mimeograph" was formerly a trademark and is now an example of a (Click link for more info and facts about genericized trademark) genericized trademark.
Mimeographs were used extensively in the production of (Click link for more info and facts about fanzine) fanzines in the middle (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century, before photocopiers became widespread.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/mimeograph_machine.htm   (871 words)

  
 Mimeograph machine - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In 1880 Edison obtained a further patent, US 224,665 (http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents/00224665.PDF): "Method of Preparing Autographic Stencils for Printing", which covered the making of stencils using a file plate, a grooved metal plate on which the stencil was placed which perforated the stencil when written on with a blunt metal stylus.
Edison did not coin the word "mimeograph", which was first used (http://edison.rutgers.edu/NamesSearch/SingleDoc.php3?DocId=CA035A) by Albert Blake Dick when he licensed Edison's patents (http://edison.rutgers.edu/NamesSearch/SingleDoc.php3?DocId=LB024149) in 1887.
The term "Mimeograph" was originally protected as a trademark, however over time the term became generic and is now an example of a genericized trademark [1] (http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/M0306800.html).
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Mimeograph   (853 words)

  
 The Dead media Project:Working Notes:40.8
This is called a "spirit duplicator," and not a mimeograph, although mimeograph was the generic term for several distinct devices.
The word mimeograph was coined by the A B Dick Company, which in the 1887 began manufacturing a stencil-based print duplication system.
As W B Proudfoot has shown, the mimeograph was the culmination of a number of inventions, some of which came from A B Dick and some from elsewhere.
www.deadmedia.org /notes/40/408.html   (1459 words)

  
 Mimeograph machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The Mimeograph machine (commonly abbreviated to "Mimeo") or stencil duplicator was a printing machine that was cheaper per copy than any other process runs of several hundred to several thousand It was not capable of photocopying a as a special stencil had to be by hand.
During the declining of the mimeograph some people made stencils computers and dot-matrix impact printers.
The modern of a mimeograph is called a digital and contains a scanner thermal head for cutting and a large roll of stencil entirely inside the unit making the stencils mounting and unmounting them from the print automatically making it almost as easy to as a photocopier.
www.freeglossary.com /Mimeograph   (587 words)

  
 Thermal mimeograph paper - Patent 5270099
The present invention provides a thermal mimeograph paper having a point-bonded structure and including a porous backing material and a thermoplastic resin film layer laminated on one side thereof through an adhesive, wherein the porous backing material and the thermoplastic resin film are bonded together by dotwise point bonding.
Thermal mimeograph paper used with the aforesaid conventional thermal mimeograph system is generally formed by laminating a thermoplastic resin film as thin as a few.mu.m in thickness onto the surface of a porous backing material such as paper.
The thermal mimeograph equipment used in the third aspect of this invention is similar to a conventional printing machine except the structure of its thermal head.
www.freepatentsonline.com /5270099.html   (8381 words)

  
 Tech Tidbit -- March 4, 2002
The finished stencil was placed on the mimeograph's drum (see the picture), the surface of which contained ink.
When the drum was turned (originally with a hand crank, later by an electric motor), a blank sheet of paper was drawn in from the tray, pressed against the drum where the ink came through the stencil and printed the copy, and passed out the other side.
By far the best history of the mimeograph and related technologies to be found on the web.
www.alteich.com /tidbits/t030402.htm   (883 words)

  
 pf.org: Mimeograph Archives
A new article up on Mimeograph: How Regina Got Her (Culinary) Groove Back.
A new story up on Mimeograph: A Girl and Her Boy, by Bea Sypher.
Another story is up on Mimeograph, this one by Joshua Fielek about the Battle of Little Bighorn.
paulfrankenstein.org /archives/Categories/index_mimeograph.html   (256 words)

  
 revrul59-83   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The percentage so obtained, applied to loans outstanding at the close of the taxable year, determines the amount of permissible reserve in the case of a bank changing to the reserve method in such year and the minimum reserve which the taxpayer will be entitled to maintain in future years.
The word `minimum' as used in paragraph 3 of Mimeograph 6209, was not intended to prevent a bank from deducting, as an addition to a reserve for bed debts, an amount less than that which would result from the method shown in paragraph 3, of that Mimeograph.
For example, in the illustration shown in paragraph 3, Mimeograph 6209, the bank could have properly added lesser amounts to the reserve in the first two years and still be in compliance with the Mimeograph.
www.taxlinks.com /rulings/1959/revrul59-83.htm   (354 words)

  
 Expert About mi:Mimeograph
Mimeograph 6475 C. In connection with the application of Mimeograph 6475, C. When Mimeograph 6475, supra, was issued, he elected to defer the blocked net earnings of his foreign banks beginning with the year 1942, the earliest open year.
The patent granted to Thomas Edison for his mimeograph was transferred to the A. The company put it on the market, calling it "Edison's mimeograph.
The mimeograph "Mimeo" is an outdated printing machine that at the time was the most cost effective way to produce copies of several hundred to several thousand pages.
expertsite.biz /dir/mi/mimeograph.htm   (902 words)

  
 Etherington & Roberts. Dictionary--mimeograph paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
A type of paper used for producing copies on a mimeograph machine.
The paper is produced from numerous furnishes, including those containing cotton fibers and bleached chemical wood pulps, mechanical wood pulp, and combinations thereof.
The usual basis weight is 20 pounds (17 X 22—500) but basis weight may range from 16 to 24 pounds.
palimpsest.stanford.edu /don/dt/dt2237.html   (65 words)

  
 -_-_-mimeograph-_-_-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Mimeograph disseminates unusual sound art made by an eclectic collective of artists involved with phonography, no- and low-fidelity recordings, raw digital data, plunderphonics, primitive analog synthesis, noise, infrasound, and tape cut-ups as well as other oblique, not-yet-classified sonic epiphenomena.
mimeograph is proud to announce three new releases.
SST is packaged in a clear slimline case and wrapped in a vellum band.
www.latibulum.com /mimeograph   (369 words)

  
 Mimeograph Billy - Castle of Spirits Ghost Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
She told us that the story was entirely true, and that she was getting chills just explaining about it.
This was one of those really old copy machines that you had to use a crank to operate, and only printed in drippy blue ink.
When she picked it up to see it, she noticed that it was printed in strange, drippy ink, like the mimeograph type printing.
www.castleofspirits.com /stories02/mimeo.html   (509 words)

  
 Untitled Document
What the café was to the early avant-garde, so the mimeograph was to the culture of the early 1960s, a low-tech hang-out for the beat generation.
THE JOURNAL was a mimeographed 'zine published through the auspices of Monteith and Otto Feinstein, and served as a prototype for the Workshop press.
The mimeograph revolution was a revolution of the senses, a preamble to the full-blown sixties version and the multi-leveled electronic media stew we swallow daily.
www.thedetroiter.com /nov04/mimeograph.html   (6486 words)

  
 Mimeograph machine in TutorGig Encyclopedia
Origins of the Mimeograph: Thomas Edison received US patent 180,857
In 1880 Edison obtained a further patent, US : "Method of Preparing Autographic Stencils for Printing", which covered the making of stencils using a file plate, a grooved metal plate on which the stencil was placed which perforated the stencil when written on with a blunt metal stylus.
The term "Mimeograph" was originally protected as a trademark, however over time the term became generic and is now an example of a genericized trademark http://www.bartleby.com/61/68/M0306800.html
www.tutorgig.com /ed/mimeograph   (967 words)

  
 Mimeograph Machine Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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www.quiltplace.com /encyclopedia/Mimeograph_machine   (1003 words)

  
 David Hare Papers, Original Folder List II
Mimeograph typescript, with some holograph revisions, nd ENGLAND'S IRELAND [Northern Ireland] (with Tony Bicât, Howard Brenton, Brian Clark, David Edgar, Francis Fuchs, and Snoo Wilson)-- Playscript 4 Typescript with holograph notes and revisions, nd 5 Mimeograph of typescript with holograph notes [by Howard Brenton], nd 6 INSIDE OUT (with Tony Bicât)--Playscript.
Mimeograph typescript with holograph revisions, bound, nd WEAPONS OF HAPPINESS (by Howard Brenton) [1976]--Playscript 11 Mimeograph typescript with holograph revisions, 24 May 1975 32 1 Mimeograph typescript with holograph notes and revisions, nd 2 Photocopy typescript with few holograph revisions, bound, nd.
With mimeograph typescript summary of Harold Pinter's works, for Mummers symposium, Nov. 1965 6-7 Joint Stock Theatre Group, minutes of board meetings, applications for financial assistance, and correspondence, 1974-76.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/hare.folder2.html   (747 words)

  
 Copy Buzz - TIME PIECE - CIO Magazine Sep 15,2001
Where I grew up we called such copies "dittos." Churned out by a mimeograph, fresh dittos were damp and limp with a heady gluelike aroma and distinct purplish ink.
Kathleen Roberts of Raynham, Mass., used the gamut of copying technology during her 47-year teaching career, from carbon paper in 1937 to a hand-cranked mimeograph by the 1950s, to a stain- and odor-free copier when she retired in 1982.
While photocopies, webpages and e-mail are efficient ways to distribute learning materials, I doubt they'll prove as evocative of childhood as the lowly mimeograph and its pungent dittos.
www.cio.com /archive/091501/time.html   (572 words)

  
 University of Delaware: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS COLLECTION
Draft is arranged in the order it was received, which appears to be arranged by individual revision, rather than in the narrative order of the play.
F47B Period of Adjustment or high point is built on a cavern (a serious comedy) [playscript], 1959: Dec Ts (mimeograph), 127 pp.
Mimeographed yellow sheets with extensive autograph textual revisions and notations in Williams's hand.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/williams_t/willtenn.htm   (8600 words)

  
 Mimeograph - Definition of Mimeograph by Webster's Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
A copying device that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed; it was invented by
to make copies of using a mimeograph; as, She mimeographed the syllabus.
mimeograph - print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus"
www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/mimeograph   (79 words)

  
 Indian Institute of Forest Management- ITTO Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Review of Course Curriculum: Incorporation C and I for SFM (Mimeograph) August 2003.
Draft Guidelines for Implementation of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management in Madhya Pradesh (Mimeograph).
Practical Guideline for Implementation of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (Mimeograph) 2001.
www.iifm.ac.in /sfmindia/pub.htm   (1228 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Dictionary - mimeograph
mimeographed copy: a copy made on a mimeograph
transitive verb (past and past participle mim·e·o·graphed, present participle mim·e·o·graph·ing, 3rd person present singular mim·e·o·graphs) (past and past participle mim·e·oed, present participle mim·e·o·ing, 3rd person present singular mim·e·os)
make copy of something with mimeograph: to make a copy of a document using a mimeograph
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861630175/mimeograph.html   (112 words)

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