If the person wants to etch through the holes in the stencil - it is
for a Gestetner Mimeograph - offset printer. The printer presses ink
through the stencil onto paper - makes the fuzzy black (typically) ink prints.
Fuzzy because of the silk used in the stencil.

A quicky way of instead of doing a silk screen through exposure and developing....

Martin

Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Ned Simmons wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:50:30 -0500, Ned Simmons
wrote:


In article .com,
says...

This is a little off topic but with the variety of arcane knowledge
here I'm hoping someone here can help. I'm looking for someplace to
get the waxy type gestetner paper. This is the style that you can
write or type on and then reproduce what you've written.

I'd greatly apprexciate aplce to either buy it online or any other
suggestions on where to find it. If it makes a difference I'm located
in Western Canada.


Mimeograph stencils? For example...

http://www.repeatotype.com/mimeo.html

Ned Simmons

No. Mimeograph uses a stencil, often made on a typewriter. He's
thinking of a hectograph. They usually made purple copies.



I don't think so. Based on the OP's later post, it seems he's using the
paper as a stencil to etch thru, not to transfer a wax resist. Gestetner
paper is mimeograph paper.

Those pleasant solvent smelling copies from 1950s & 1960s school were
from a ditto machine, or spirit duplicator, a variation of the
hectograph. Strictly speaking, a hectograph has a reusable gelatin pad
as the printing "plate".

Ned Simmons



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