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| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/26 9:39 |
Just can't stay away   Joined: 2005/7/13 From: Posts: 71 |
Re: How did we make corrections Marchan,Good morning
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I remember there was a brownish colored correction liquid to white-out the mistakes. By dropping a liquid on to a mistaken character and wait until it dried out, a thin film was produced to cover the pierced paper so that you can rewrite on top it. However, the characters became blurred a little bit and somewhat bolded. Also, I think we also used the scraped candle and brought a light nearby and melted it to cover the mistakes. Karei |
| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/26 9:43 |
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Re: How did we make corrections Karei san
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Ah yes! That’s right!. And I also remember that during junior high school days, one of the student actually did this and burned a stencil paper. Yes, I kind of remember that. Marchan |
| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/26 9:50 |
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Re: Before Word Processors and Copy Machines Appeared This is my first comment here. Karei san, yes, now as an old retired man, I remember those good old mimeographs mentioned before in comment 4, 5, and 6 and remember that I really had troubles with them.
Using mimeograph as a tool, we did in fact received a salary which I like to that that old machine. I remember, though, that I had to rewrite the correction, under the direction of my boss, over the original writings by stylus a number of times which tore the waxed stencil paper. The tore portion had spread out and the outcome was the printing in all black. And because we had printed a large stack of printings to be distributed the next morning, we had to work over night on it. Such was the case with stencil paper is so was the Japanese rough writing paper. The hectic and even dreadful workload we had go through can perhaps only be understood by those who actually experienced the process. I even had nightmares. Ah yes, and I remember that it was not so beautiful as it appears on these pictures but it was all black with ink, not only the machine itself bout our face, forehead and chin were all black and the work never finished without getting all black . Toshitsuru |
| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/26 10:00 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2005/7/13 From: Posts: 71 |
Re: Before Word Processors and Copy Machines Appeared Toshitsuru san, Good evening
Thank you for your comment. Sorry for my late response. I missed it. (^^; Quote:
Huum, yea that was right. Once the correction was made on the stencil paper, the characters all became blurred. But then you were instructed to do it all over again a number of times and tore the paper? Wao! And after finally getting it done and you were about to print it, you were black all over! Uuu! How miserable, I really sympathize you! You want to cry, but you can’t! - I really understand that well. Quote:
I can picture you working all night almost alone getting all black in ink……I would weep in sympathy with you. And it come out even in your dream? You really had the recollections filled with ink! I must say I am sorry to bring this subject up which brought back your nightmares. (^_^; I do think that it was not an easy tool to handle. I only bought it for my hobby, and hardly used it. Karei |
| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/27 2:20 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2005/7/13 From: Posts: 71 |
Re: Before Word Processors and Copy Machines Appeared This is my first comment since I visited this site. But it really reminded me of the “old high tech product” and came in to see the pictures of mimeographs once again in my life. Karei san, thank you for your comment. If I would exaggerate, what I am today and the pension I get now is because of the mimeograph. I was worried when I was creating a draft proposal, and I was worried when I was struggling with the mimeograph, and because I couldn’t think of anything else but ink at the end, I was having a nightmare. Those were the days now nearly 60 years ago when we come to think of how we process documents by personal computers, make corrections easily, and print out so beautifully. We could never have imagined this. I may bother someone with other bad dreams if I talk too much on this. Let me think about other old stories. Thank you again. Toshitsuru |
| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/27 2:28 |
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Re: Before Word Processors and Copy Machines Appeared Toshitsuru san, Good evening
Thank you for your comment and I am really glad you visited us. Quote:
I assume you became a true expert in the work of mimeograph. It must have been a great pleasure when distributing the documents which so beautifully you have created. Although it seems that the time of the mimeograph was not that long, our time could never have existed without it and we were truly relied on it: it was definitely an important piece of tools. Karei |
| kousei4 | Posted on: 2005/7/27 2:34 |
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Re: Mimeograph Hello, Marchan, I was really attracted to the issue of mimeograph.
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We wrote on wax paper (stencil paper) by stylus, and used carbon sheet and a roller. Wasn’t there a one for the brush pens? What I remember was that I mixed the Indian ink(bokujyu) with a kind of chemical. And when I wrote with it, the very part where the letters were written on Japanese paper would turn white and then the afterwards, the process was very similar to ordinary mimeograph. However the case, it was such a tiring job with a great loss of efforts. Rifurei |
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