[Hallicrafters] Decals - Use of duplicator stensils?

[Chuck McGregor]

Peter -
I used a number of duplicating machines back in the 1950's and 60's,  both 
stencil type (Mimeograph was one tradename) and spirit duplicators.  I 
remember both types as having what we would now consider very poor letter 
and line definition.  I don't think the processes are capable of the kind 
of line and character quality we are used to from modern offset printing 
and silkscreen processes.

Its an innovative idea, but the quality problems of the old processes were 
among the reasons that the xerox process was such a success.

73,
Chuck N7RHU

At 01:43 AM 8/15/2005, Peter May wrote:

>Group,
>Back in the early 1980s when photocopiers were starting to become quite
>common in industry, I was still playing around with old Fordigraph,
>Gestetner and Roneo-Alcatel duplicating machines.
>These duplicators used various stencils that could be cut on a typewriter,
>drawn on, made on a stylus cutting machine or a 3M infra-red copier.
>Basically, they were a waxed paper type of set-up, and the ink would soak
>through where the wax had been removed.
>You might remember these duplicator machines, many of them were
>hand-cranked, could be quite dirty to use, I used them to print a small
>church newspaper.
>Has anyone thought of cutting old duplicator stencils on a dot-matrix
>printer and then maybe using white ink on a small roller or felt pen to
>produce replica decals direct onto equipment?
>I still have some of these stencils somewhere in the shed, maybe I'll dig
>them out see what can be done with them. The old duplicator machines are
>long gone....
>
>Regards
>Peter
>
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