Posted by:
Stray Mutt
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Date: August 12, 2014 02:42PM
When I was assigned to the mission office, one of my jobs was assembling and printing the monthly newsletter using a Gestetner machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GestetnerIt was a beast. You had to burn stencils on a spinning drum gadget, squeeze ink into reservoirs, adjust tensions... It was like being a press operator.
Being the arty type, I was always trying to do things the machine wasn't designed to do, like big photos and blocks of color. I wasted a LOT of ink and paper, not to mention "the Lord's time" trying to make the newsletter nicer.