It is Friday and Friday are for fun. last weekend I attended the most excellent Minnesota Bloggers Conference and one of the speakers mentioned Mimeograph machines.
Ever since then I have been thinking about the look and smell of a mimeographed page. I remember the sheets of spelling words the nuns at Sacred Heart used to put on mimeographed sheets and all the red ink they added when they graded my test.
I am sure that the ink contained hazardous chemicals but I would love to smell my spelling test again. Does anyone still use the mimeograph?
Honk if you remember the look and smell of that wonderful purplish blue mimeograph ink.
*Honk!*
It’s one of those smells that immediately transports me back to grade school. Thanks for the memory, Teresa!
I have a client who sells and services these machines. They are used nowadays by Amish schools and by tattoo artists.