On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:50:26 +0100, Timothy Collinson wrote:

>All this has reminded me that I used to edit a school magazine (I had
>completely forgotten about this!) which was produced on a banda machine:
>https://www.1900s.org.uk/banda.htm
>I have a feeling that if I looked hard enough, I might still find some
>issues in the attic.
>
>I also recall using one later in life in a church for something or other.
>
>What's coming back to me is the distinctive colour of the blue ink and the
>unique smell.

The American version of this, regardless of manufacturer, was close to
universally called "Rexograph", and when it wasn't, it was called
"mimeograph". I remember doing a school newsletter on one put out by
Gestetner, and it was pretty nifty in that there was a "Gestefax" unit that
could "read" copy from ordinary paper and generate the Rexo master, so that
in addition to typed text, it could reproduce drawings and handwriting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

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