hectograph

My brother quickly decided the hectograph was a pain in the butt.

Soon, they have been provided with a hectograph to multiply propaganda leaflets.

The printed matter can not be stenciled, mimeographed or through a hectograph process.

The hectograph, introduced around 1876, was so named because it could produce (in theory) up to a hundred copies.

Hailey reviewed the old hectograph outlines and refined them for publication.

During the Rag's first year, the print was purple - those issues were produced on a flat plate of jelly called a hectograph.

It was printed in Minsk on a hectograph and promoted the idea of autonomy of Belarus.

The hectograph was invented in Russia in 1869 by Mikhail Alisov.

While the hectograph process is obsolete for printing on paper, it is still used for making temporary tattoos on human skin.

Fanzine printing methods have changed over the decades, from the hectograph, the mimeograph, and the ditto machine, to modern photocopying.

Hectograph (19th century)

This meant that improvised hectograph assumed the role of reproducing nearly every sort of censored material from subversive literature to pornography.

"Boxes contain original prints he made on his printing press, the hectograph - an invention before the miracle of the Xerox machine," said Mr. Manville.

Early fanzines were hand-drafted or typed on a manual typewriter and printed using primitive reproduction techniques (e.g., the spirit duplicator or even the hectograph).

For the hectograph, the mirror image is on the gelatin itself.) ;Copies After transfer of the image to the inked gelatin surface, copies are made by pressing paper against it.

We were able to put together in two nights what had previously taken a week with the hectograph, and while the drum-press was messy, it did not look infected with a potentially fatal disease.

In February 1891, he attempted to use a hectograph to create materials, which worked reasonably well, but in March, he read an advertisement for an Edison mimeograph, which he immediately ordered.

The hectograph introduced in 1876 or shortly before, was a technology in which a dye-impregnated master copy, not unlike a ditto master, was laid on top of a cake pan full of firm gelatin.

While good-quality, reasonably rapid copies from a hectograph require fairly specific materials (Aniline dye is the most effective), passable copies can be produced from a bewildering array of improvised materials on makeshift equipment.

My loft was at the top of an undistinguished building full of undistinguished artists: a cheese sculptor, two jolly Ukranian women who ran a charismatic hat school, someone who employed rabbits as brushes to paint on hectograph jelly.

The hectograph or gelatin duplicator or jellygraph is a printing process which involves transfer of an original, prepared with special inks, to a pan of gelatin or a gelatin pad pulled tight on a metal frame.

As a teenager, waiting for the hectograph to "freshen" between pages printed (while "freshening," the print would melt into a vague purple membrane which hung in the jelly like a manatee's shadow) drove David all but insane with impatience.

Moving to Turinsk, the Steres joined a group of revolutionaries in internal exile; Constantin Stere agreed to print copies of a Narodnik magazine, using a hectograph, and was exposed during a raid by authorities.

Prisoners-of-war at Stalag Luft III (the scene of The Great Escape) and at Colditz Castle during World War II used an improvised hectograph to reproduce documents for a planned escape attempt.

It also was used in professional situations; in Macy's advertising department during the 1950s and 1960s, full-page newspaper ad layouts were drawn with hectograph pencils and then duplicated on a hectograph to make file copies for future reference.