Sympathy. Seriously, - sympathy. Before working on vis. aids for the vis impaired, (gosh! '89 - '92) I used to run a workshop. Two of them at the end. One of their tasks was Rebuilding/refurbing.... Photocopiers. We used to test the bottom end model with about 500 straight through with no snags before passing it. Should then have been good for 500K.
Made me a bit of a photocopier nerd I'm afraid. Depending on print runs we had a product then which was a copier/duplicator. It could.... take your original document and electronically scan it, cut it's own duplicator stencil, and WHAMMO! copies beyond the dreams of publishers, periodically renewing it's stencil when it got too grotty. Automatically I think, although it's a long time ago now.
We've come a long way from Banda spirit duplicators and the purple copies that smelt of methylated spirits that I knew when a boy....
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Date: 2004-11-10 05:31 am (UTC)Before working on vis. aids for the vis impaired, (gosh! '89 - '92) I used to run a workshop. Two of them at the end. One of their tasks was
Rebuilding/refurbing....
Photocopiers.
We used to test the bottom end model with about 500 straight through with no snags before passing it. Should then have been good for 500K.
Made me a bit of a photocopier nerd I'm afraid.
Depending on print runs we had a product then which was a copier/duplicator. It could....
take your original document and electronically scan it, cut it's own duplicator stencil, and WHAMMO! copies beyond the dreams of publishers, periodically renewing it's stencil when it got too grotty. Automatically I think, although it's a long time ago now.
We've come a long way from Banda spirit duplicators and the purple copies that smelt of methylated spirits that I knew when a boy....