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Try explaining to some thirtysomething the exquisitely intoxicating smell of paper fresh from the ditto machine. ... With its rapturously fragrant, sweetly aromatic pale blue ink, mimeograph paper was literally intoxicating.Jun 6, 2008

Definition of ditto (Entry 3 of 4) 1a : a thing mentioned previously or above —used to avoid repeating a word Mr. Thomas Potter, then, was a clerk in the city, and Mr. Robert Smithers was a ditto in the same …— Charles Dickens —often symbolized by inverted commas or apostrophes.

the machines and devices used in preparing illustration printing plates. Reproduction equipment may be photomechanical or electronic.

A mimeograph is an old-fashioned copy machine. Mimeographs were often used for making classroom copies in schools before photocopying became inexpensive in the mid- to late-twentieth century.

The major types of duplicating machines are stencil (or mimeograph), hectograph, multilith (or offset lithograph), and imprinting (qq. v.). Regardless of the process used, all duplicating machines require the preparation of a master copy from which copies are made by a machine.

Commercial Copy Machines and How Much They Cost

A really good home copy machine might cost $175.00 or more, but standard commercial copy machines range between $3,000 – $15,000 depending on your needs. Many businesses choose to rent or lease their machine, typically for periods of between three and five years.

Duplicating is a process in which the desired number of copies is prepared from a master copy with the help of a duplicator. Duplicating differ from copying and reproduction. Copying or reproduction means preparation of one copy or few copies from the original.

After the paper is passed out, the students put the page up to their noses and deeply inhale. This was a popular school ritual of the '60s, '70s and early '80s as photocopying machines were very expensive, so ditto machines were used. The resulting copies did not get you high but they smelled good.

As nouns the difference between duplicator and photocopier

is that duplicator is a device that reproduces pages of typed, printed or written material; a copier while photocopier is a machine which reproduces documents by photographing the original over a glass plate and printing duplicates.