We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: “01:00:12:00 - President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.” Spirit duplicators were used mainly by schools, churches, clubs, and other small organizations, such as in the production of fanzines, because of the limited number of copies one could make from an original, along with the low cost (and corresponding low quality) of copying. The device coexisted alongside the mimeograph. The term “spirit duplicator” refers to the alcohols which were a major component of the solvents used as “inks” in these machines. ![]() The dye transfer process is then explained.Ī spirit duplicator (also referred to as a Ditto machine in North America, Banda machine in the UK or Roneo in Australia, France and South Africa) was a printing method invented in 1923 by Wilhelm Ritzerfeld and commonly used for much of the rest of the 20th century. At 2:00 the narrator mentions the name Ditto, as that company was once prominent in the field. The film also shows a photocopy machine (1:20), an offset duplicator (1:25), and a stencil duplicator (1:44). ![]() This 1960s instructional film shows how to use an early kind of photocopy machine called a spirit duplicator.
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