{"id":28289,"date":"2011-07-03T15:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T22:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=28289"},"modified":"2011-07-03T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T03:20:52","slug":"ditto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28289","title":{"rendered":"Ditto!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Before there were photocopiers, scanners and printers, there was the Ditto Machine (a.k.a. spirit duplicator<\/a>), produced by the Illinois-based Ditto Corporation; originally introduced in 1923.’ –mnn<\/a>
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\nClifford the Big Red Dog was supposed to be red. But in the handout I got in kindergarten, he was purple.<\/p>\n

So was my introduction to the Ditto Machine – a device used to replicate most of the paperwork I’d used in elementary school. <\/p>\n

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Some of my earliest experiences as a ‘graphics’ guy was playing with one of these machines – seeing what it could reproduce and what it couldn’t. It couldn’t reproduce much. The copies were so smudgy, Dittos were grunge before grunge was grunge. <\/p>\n

And the smell of the purple ink was incredible.<\/em> Fruity and chemically at the same time! Tho it turns out ink ingredients – isopropanol and methanol – are toxic substances.<\/a> Who knew? <\/p>\n

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Cept for a few high school teachers who were holdouts (‘I don’t trust that newfangled photocopier thing’)<\/em> all the dittos in my life were gone by end of grade 12.<\/p>\n

Snag a tee here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Images found via They Always Come Back,<\/a> a tree grows in brookline,<\/a> Zazzle,<\/a> Jean&Vic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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