{"id":87251,"date":"2024-05-14T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87251"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T23:55:22","slug":"spirit-duplicators-copies-never-smelled-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/14\/spirit-duplicators-copies-never-smelled-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Duplicators: Copies Never Smelled So Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MdOjjZK0INM?si=itH2Ix3Wtp0Z9ok2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Our Own Devices<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Feb 7, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Widely used throughout the 20th Century by schools, churches, fan clubs, and other small organizations, Spirit Duplicators or &#8220;Ditto&#8221; machines allowed small runs of documents to be copied cheaply and quickly. Often conflated with mimeographs, they were in fact a distinct technology, used a master sheet printed with dye-bearing wax instead of liquid ink. 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