Comments on: Old Printers Never Die, They Just Munch Away

By: J. Daniel

J. Daniel — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:07:08 +0000

Great comments, Peter. I don’t think we had Gestetner machines but we had Mimeographs – which sound similar. Don’t recall the Faux X button either – we just used to hit it with a hammer – that seemed to work fine (chucke).

By: Peter Wright

Peter Wright — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:35:47 +0000

That’s amazing, I only recently purchased an H-Pea, before that I had a succession of Lexsmarts that generally behaved quite well but did sometimes display the same rebellious attitude you describe so accurately.

All of these were consigned to that great printer resting place in the sky, because relatively minor problems were going to cost more to fix than a new printer (with more buttons).

Did you have Gestetner machines in this part of the world? Or did you leapfrog that stage of technology, unlike us colonials. They were hand operated printers that needed a stencil and tubes of black ink. The stencil had to be perfectly typed by a typist on a typewriter,

Interestingly there was no “Faux X” button on the machine. Not sure about the typist though.

By: Patty

Patty — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:38:13 +0000

Hey Dan,

This one was brilliant – very funny!!!
It’s good to see you still have your technological sense of humor!

Patty