What was the name of the copier machine, pre xerox?
Question : What was the name of the copier machine, pre xerox?
It had purple ink, it smelled unique, and you had to let the paper dry. It would have been early 80′s.
xerox ink
Best answer:
Answer by Jean-Claude
mimeograph?
It wasn’t really a copier but more of a printer from an offset form.
Printed using a chemical reaction from a reversed image on special paper.
Yep, it was a Ditto machine. It used a waxy master set that was typed on. This transferred the purple “wax” from the carrier sheet to a master. The master was placed on a rotating drum, a small amount of alcohol was applied to the master dissolving a small amount of the wax. the master then contacted the copy paper transferring a small amount of the purple wax to the copy paper.