What Is a Mimeograph?

Imprinter technology was invented by British company GESTETENR a hundred years ago. Over the past 100 years, wax paper manufacturing materials and printing processes have continued to improve. By the 1950s, a double-drum imprinting machine was developed. In 1962, Japan's RICOH developed and developed a Ricoh (RICOH) all-in-one, which launched the VT series in the 1990s and the JP series in the late 1990s.

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Imprinter technology was invented by British company GESTETENR 100 years ago. The first mimeograph was designed based on the material of wax paper. Over the past hundred years, wax paper manufacturing materials and printing processes have been continuously improved. By the 1950s, a 4130 double-drum mechanical high-speed mimeograph was developed, which improved office efficiency at the time. Therefore, the fifties was the golden age of mimeographs. In 1962, the Japanese company RICOH developed and developed a Ricoh (RICOH) all-in-one machine that is more adaptable to the changing times and stable in performance on the basis of absorbing the principle of the all-in-one machine from British company GESTETENR. The VT series was introduced to the market in the 1990s, and the JP series was introduced in the late 1990s. Among them, VT series products, like all Ricoh cameras, copiers, fax machines and other products, have the characteristics of stable product performance, high quality and durability, and can be connected to a computer.

Simple mimeograph equipment

Place the wax paper on a flat plate and write on it with a pen. This is how the wax plate was created. The simplest method is to cut through the wax paper and place it on the gauze, then put the gauze rack on the paper, and roll it on the waxed paper with an ink roller to print the words on the paper. It's super slow and has a lot of work.

Mimeograph

In the 1990s, hand-cranked mimeographs were still widely used in units and schools for printing. first

Carving characters on wax paper on a steel plate, or printing a piece of waxed paper with a mechanical typewriter, installing a runner, and applying ink, and then printing by turning the runner by hand, printing it out one at a time is very tiring If the wax paper in the middle is rotten. It will be engraved / printed separately. This machine is very inefficient, and it takes a lot of work to print a copy of the material. Inexperienced people often get their hands full and black because of changing wax paper and adding ink. Later, a motor was added to the back of the hand crank to make a semi-automatic mimeograph.

High-speed mimeograph

Print a piece of wax paper with a dot printer, and then install the wax paper on the wheel. There are automatic ink pump, automatic paper feed, mechanical counter, and automatic stop.

Stops and runs out of paper automatically, speed is faster, until now there are still many economically backward schools still using this type of high-speed inkjet machine, the first high-speed inkjet machine is the British company Gestetner 4130 type Later, there were many brands, such as Supermaster, Suppermaster, Digging Well, and Jimei Le, etc., which are still selling mainly to Chinese brands: Jimei Le and Rongda.