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| − | The [[Gestetner]] brand name of a device for cutting special [[mimeo stencils]] which enabled the user to print illustrations with heavy dark areas or even photographs. It was usually used as a generic term, even though there were other brands, such as '''Stenofax'''.
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| − | The illustrations (or screened photos) and the stencil are placed side by side on the "drum" of the device. When turned on, the drum would turn; a photoelectric scanner would move from left to right, slowly scanning the illustration/photo, and every time it "saw" a black area the [[stylus]] at the corresponding spot on the [[stencil]] would cut the [[stencil]].
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| − | When [[fans]] first started using the device, they would usually pack as many illustrations/photos as they could on a white legal-sized surface, which they would have Gestafaxed by a professional service; they would then cut the stencil into as many parts as there were illustrations/photos, and use stencil cement to put them in the proper place on a typed wax stencil on which corresponding space had been cut away. The cost of a single Gestafaxed stencil ranged from $5 to $10 when a commercial service was used. Over the years, some [[fans]] bought their own machine and special [[stencils]], and when the per-[[stencil]] cost dropped to around $1-$2, many of them simply Gestafaxed entire pages of type and illustrations together.
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