Reproduction
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Jump to navigationJump to searchAlsorepro orduplicating, this refers to do-it-yourself means of printingfanzines. Beginning in the ’80s,faneds increasingly went from homemadezines to issues run off at the local copy shop (or snuck from the officephotocopier). No mess, no fuss, nodupers to maintain — and something sadly gone from the creative process.
Now, of course, most zines are produced electronically as PDFs.
| FromFancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| The making of more than one copy of a publication; the means used in doing so. (That's the meaning we're going to define, at all events.) As our chief method of communication is thefanzine, methods of producing these are an importantfannish concern. Standard methods aremimeoing,dittoing,hektoing, andlithography, supremacy passing historically fromletterpress-printing tohektoing tomimeography asfandom's ingenuity and size varied. Great resourcefulness has been displayed in discovering new and unusual means of duplication; they includelinoblock,silkscreening, rubber stamp, photography,photo-offset,blueprint, and even teletype tape, dog-tag printer, and sonodisc. And somefanzines, likeBill Rotsler'sletter-substitutes, are not really duplicated at all, but merely passed around or displayed in the original typescript or as carbon copies. |
| FromFancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| The making of more than one copy of a publication, or the means used in doing so. Standard methods arehektoing,mimeoing, and printing, supremacy passing historically from printing tohektoing tomimeoing, asfandom's size fluctuated. Great ingenuity has been displayed in discovering new and unusual means of duplication; they includelinoblock,silkscreening, rubber stamp,fotografy,foto-offset,blueprint, and even teletype tape, dogtag printer, and sonodisc. Somefanzines are not duplicated but merely passed around or displayed, and a few have beencarbon copied. |
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