I used both systems.
Wax stencils cut with a typewriter with the ribbon disabled and printed on
the Gestetner - great for as many copies as you liked, but the middle of
some letters like o's, e' and a's used to fall out so they were filled in
when printed. We used a bottle of something to paint over and fill in
mistakes when typing the stencils.
The other machine was known as Banda. Spirit in the machine removed a small
layer of the purple reversed print and transferred it to the paper. You
could only get a finite number of copies because the purple ink was
transferred, so copies got fainter and fainter until there was none left to
transfer. I had a good turn out during the wonderful month's holiday I had
when DH took himself off to New Zealand in February/March (what bliss to do
what I wanted when I wanted), and actually came across an unused box of the
Banda carbons among the teaching stuff I hadn't got around to throwing out
since I retired in 1997. They went in the trash along with all the rest of
the stuff which was soooooo out of date.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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