Difference between revisions of "Twilltone"

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-A brand name for fairly soft, rather rough (in fact actually hairy) printing paper suitable for use with [[mimeograph |mimeographs]] and hence used sometimes for printing fanzines. It absorbed ink and hence reduced the need for [[slipsheeting]], while still not suffering badly from showthrough. Not everybody liked how it felt to handle, though.
+#REDIRECT [[Twil-tone]]
-There was at least one other brand of somewhat similar paper, called Fibertone (made by a Minnesota paper mill, which may explain why [[fans]] ran into it more commonly in Minneapolis.)
-Twilltone is now a lost technology and is a minor object of worship among the most hard-core mimeographers in [[fandom]].
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