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Scienti Snaps, v. 1, issue 4, Fall 1938
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8 Page SCIENTI-SNAPS sheet of plain paper whatever is to be reproduced. One then moistens very lightly the surface of the hecto, of which the essential parts are a containing tray and an evil-smelling greenish stuff that apparently is some hellish compound of rubber, slightly firmer than Jell-o. One places the sheet of paper face down on the gelatin and leaves it for a brief interval, during which part of the special hecto pigment comes off on the jelly. The original (master sheet) is then removed, and a clean sheet of paper placed face down on the gelatin. Part of the ink is passed back to the paper and the printed page is then removed. This goes on for from 50 to 100 copies. (Editorial note: Maybe!) I recently paid a visit to the Washington office of Ditto Duplicators (probably there are branches in all large cities), which deals exclusively in hectographs; and I was amazed at the extent to which the hectograph of my childhood had developed. There was one mechanism that looked and worked like a mimeograph: turn the crank and out come copies (I understand that the rotary duplicator isn’t as hard on the hecto compound as flat reproducing.) The jelly for use with these rotary machines was a thin film on a heavy sheet of paper that is supposed to be just as good as the much deeper layers in the pan hecto. This paper hecto ($1 per sheet) can also be used flat; I was shown a $4 film-o-graph which makes the flat duplicating job as simple as possible. However, what was called a “portable” unit (40 some-odd dollars each!) made it even simpler to operate: A housetop-shaped thing fits over the hecto sheet, one side holding the supply of paper. In the other side you insert a paper, turn the crank, which runs a roller across
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8 Page SCIENTI-SNAPS sheet of plain paper whatever is to be reproduced. One then moistens very lightly the surface of the hecto, of which the essential parts are a containing tray and an evil-smelling greenish stuff that apparently is some hellish compound of rubber, slightly firmer than Jell-o. One places the sheet of paper face down on the gelatin and leaves it for a brief interval, during which part of the special hecto pigment comes off on the jelly. The original (master sheet) is then removed, and a clean sheet of paper placed face down on the gelatin. Part of the ink is passed back to the paper and the printed page is then removed. This goes on for from 50 to 100 copies. (Editorial note: Maybe!) I recently paid a visit to the Washington office of Ditto Duplicators (probably there are branches in all large cities), which deals exclusively in hectographs; and I was amazed at the extent to which the hectograph of my childhood had developed. There was one mechanism that looked and worked like a mimeograph: turn the crank and out come copies (I understand that the rotary duplicator isn’t as hard on the hecto compound as flat reproducing.) The jelly for use with these rotary machines was a thin film on a heavy sheet of paper that is supposed to be just as good as the much deeper layers in the pan hecto. This paper hecto ($1 per sheet) can also be used flat; I was shown a $4 film-o-graph which makes the flat duplicating job as simple as possible. However, what was called a “portable” unit (40 some-odd dollars each!) made it even simpler to operate: A housetop-shaped thing fits over the hecto sheet, one side holding the supply of paper. In the other side you insert a paper, turn the crank, which runs a roller across
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