...when i was growing up in the seventies and early eighties, the most common duplication technology used for school handouts, community newsletters, and other small-press purposes were smudgy...
...when i was growing up in the seventies and early eighties, the most common duplication technology used for school handouts, community newsletters, and other small-press purposes were smudgy purple-blue prints (often still slightly damp with VOC vapors when fresh) which everyone i knew called mimeographs, and which until about thirty minutes ago i was confident were small-format analogs to blueprints or diazo reprographic processes for large-format technical drawings...
...apparently i was totally wrong on both counts: mimeographs are a completely different small-press reprographic process, albeit sufficiently ubiquitous for the term to become generally-applicable vernacular for several unrelated processes similarly suitable for small-press applications; and despite the similar look, feel, aroma, and longevity, our "mimeographs" had absolutely nothing in common with blueprint / diazo duplication processes...
...when i was growing up in the seventies and early eighties, the most common duplication technology used for school handouts, community newsletters, and other small-press purposes were smudgy purple-blue prints (often still slightly damp with VOC vapors when fresh) which everyone i knew called mimeographs, and which until about thirty minutes ago i was confident were small-format analogs to blueprints or diazo reprographic processes for large-format technical drawings...
...apparently i was totally wrong on both counts: mimeographs are a completely different small-press reprographic process, albeit sufficiently ubiquitous for the term to become generally-applicable vernacular for several unrelated processes similarly suitable for small-press applications; and despite the similar look, feel, aroma, and longevity, our "mimeographs" had absolutely nothing in common with blueprint / diazo duplication processes...