#129 Print & Copy
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Original size: 20x30 inches
Program: Adobe Illustrator
Font: Helvetica
Ampersand: Helvetica
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Hi Chaz,
What an awesome memory & cool, popping design!
Yes, I remember the carbon paper. Also, the purple mimeographs in grade school that smelled really great to me! I do miss the unique, slower, old- fashioned ways of printing presses, typewriters and carbon paper.…life nowadays seems like a super-quick, advanced-tech (but ultimately bland & unsatisfying) freeze-dried astronaut meal.
(Sorry I have been MIA in emails…lots and lots of illness plus finishing up April’s transcripts and her graduation events.)
“Smelled great” — really? Don’t you mean “liked getting high” off the fumes? Those were actually spirit duplicators (usually called Ditto machines, which was the Coke or Kleenex of the industry brand names). The print was purple, but it also came in several other colors. I used to create artwork by applying several colors to one master. (The “ink” was actually like a crayon which transferred to the slick paper via the “spirit” of the alcohol-like solvent.)
Then there were the actual mimeographs which used stencils through which an intensely black & smelly ink pushed through onto the highly-absorbent, toothy paper. You could see the oily outlines of the ink on the sheet. Problem was, you couldn’t get high off of that ink.
I’m writing this after the first civilian launches into space by Branson, Bezos & Musk. So we might be dining on freeze-dried astronaut food — in space, actually — sooner than you think.