This article is about the stencil-based process. Not to be confused with the spirit duplicator which is sometimes incorrectly called a "mimeograph".
For the EP by Old 97's, see Mimeograph (EP).
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Illustration of a typical mimeograph machine
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200
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1040
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1430
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c. 1440
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c. 1515
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1642
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1690
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1772
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1796
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1837
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1843
Hectograph
1860
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1875
Hot metal typesetting
1884
Mimeograph
1885
Daisy wheel printing
1889
Photostat and rectigraph
1907
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1911
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1923
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1925
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1938
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1940
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1949
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1950
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1957
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1969
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c. 1972
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1972
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1981
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1986
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A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.[1] The process was called mimeography, and a copy made by the process was a mimeograph.
Mimeographs, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were common technologies for printing small quantities of a document, as in office work, classroom materials, and church bulletins. For even smaller quantities, up to about five, a typist would use carbon paper. Early fanzines were printed by mimeograph because the machines and supplies were widely available and inexpensive. Beginning in the late 1960s and continuing into the 1970s, photocopying gradually displaced mimeographs, spirit duplicators, and hectographs.
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A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked...
pages did. A good mimeograph master could produce many more copies than the best spirit master. As with spirit masters, mimeograph stencils could be saved...
the mimeograph, an electric pen spin-off marketed specifically as "Edison’s Mimeograph" under his permission. Unlike the electric pen, the mimeograph sold...
experimental music group Mimeograph machine Mimeo – an unpublished academic paper, formerly often distributed with the aid of mimeograph machines. Mimeo, Inc...
photocopying gradually replaced copies made by verifax, photostat, carbon paper, mimeograph machines, and other duplicating machines. Photocopying is widely used...
low quality) of copying. The spirit duplicator coexisted alongside the mimeograph and the hectograph, devices with a similar purpose but different operation...
Christmas census summary 1900–1939. State College of Washington, Pullman. Mimeograph. "Great Backyard Bird Count". "Étude des populations d'oiseaux du Québec"...
for the benefit of White House employees; its old location became a mimeograph room, and, much later, the White House Situation Room. On 9 July 2014...
He contributed to Dave's Rag, the newspaper his brother printed with a mimeograph machine, and later sold stories to his friends. His first independently...
Phair. In August 2005, Penn released Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 on his own Mimeograph Records label. Its songs are set against the background of post-World...
generally produced by letterpress. The development of spirit duplicators and mimeograph machines in the early 20th century made short-run reproduction more economical...
association for humanistic psychology, Articles of association. Palo Alto, CA (mimeographed): August 28, 1963; in Severin (ed.), Humanistic Viewpoints in Psychology...
and engineering drawings. Stencil duplicators (more commonly known as "Mimeograph machines") surfaced in 1874, and the Cyclostyle in 1891. All were manual...
In 1969, Bukowski and Neeli Cherkovski launched their own short-lived mimeographed literary magazine, Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns. They produced...
opportunities. Poets notably used the mimeograph machine to print texts. This technology led to the nickname "Mimeograph Generation" for the out-of-the-mainstream...
(chairman of the Business Department at Alabama State University) and others mimeographed and distributed thousands of leaflets calling for a boycott. The eventual...
believed it important to seize the opportunity and stayed up all night mimeographing over 35,000 handbills announcing a bus boycott. The Women's Political...
was the most common dye used in early duplication machines, such as the mimeograph and the ditto machine. It is sometimes used to colourize diverse products...
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