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Offset printing has been used for many years to print [[fanzines]], but less so than [[mimeography]] or [[photocopying]], being more expensive. A few fans did their own offset printing, but mostly it was as described in [[Fancyclopedia 1]].  
 
Offset printing has been used for many years to print [[fanzines]], but less so than [[mimeography]] or [[photocopying]], being more expensive. A few fans did their own offset printing, but mostly it was as described in [[Fancyclopedia 1]].  
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[https://firstfandomexperience.org/2020/01/23/in-1939-lithography-came-to-fanzines-but-why/ “In 1939, Lithography Came to Fanzines — But Why?”] [[First Fandom Experience]], January 23, 2020.
  
  
 
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Revision as of 23:58, 14 September 2021

From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944
Your researcher once asked Dick Wilson what this reproduction process was; he said it's something you take to a commercial place and pay thru the nose to have done, and ask Taurasi.
From Cry of the Nameless 111, January 1958.

Offset printing, a type of lithography, is a commonly used printing technique where an inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to paper.

Offset printing has been used for many years to print fanzines, but less so than mimeography or photocopying, being more expensive. A few fans did their own offset printing, but mostly it was as described in Fancyclopedia 1.

“In 1939, Lithography Came to Fanzines — But Why?” First Fandom Experience, January 23, 2020.



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