Stencil Machine Gestetner

the old way of printing by a stencil machine.

The Gestetner Cyclograph was a stencil-method duplicator that used a thin sheet of paper coated with wax (originally kite paper was used), which was written upon with a special stylus that left a broken line through the stencil, removing the paper’s wax coating. Ink was forced through the stencil (originally by an ink roller), and it left its impression on a white sheet of paper.