Gestetner
An English brand of mimeograph that were much better than American brands. Where U.S. models had cotton ink pads, Gestetners utilized a silk screen; where American mimeos relied on internal brushes and centrifugal force (or, on cheaper machines, outside applications with a brush) to spread ink around, the Gestetner used far superior waver rollers.
The Gestetner also had a sophisticated method of adjustment that allowed for better registration (establishing where the print area will hit on the page), which made it vastly superior for two- and three-color mimeograph work.
Gestetner is no longer made as a form of mimeograph, although some of the old technology is in use in its present copier; the stencils are internal and they are cut by a photographic process from the original copy, which is scanned like a Xerox.
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