These books are long out of print and generally hard to find. In some cases I have corresponded with their respective publishers to determine if they are considered “orphan works” and can be provided here, free of charge. If you’re a copyright holder to one of these works, please contact me with evidence of your claim and I will remove the work from this page.
7/30/26
I found the 5th edition, 1992, of the Zeitlyn book, Print: How to Do It Yourself, recently and uploaded it below, next to the 1974 edition. Also, you’ll find his The Alternative Printing Handbook, below.
6/27/26
The Mimeograph Duplicator: A Tool of Production Control,1947 MBA thesis by Ralph Pomeroy Basset. A study on the use of stencil duplication using novel materials to assist in manufacturing processes. Pays particular attention the A.B. Dick models in the 90 series, includes scans of different types of stencil sheets, examples of forms used in production control, and provides data on metrics like how many copies produced per pound of ink, and the cost of die-impressed stencils. The A.B. Dick 90, 91, and 92 brochures, and ads for the 93, and other tools like styli and the Mimeoscope that are included in this dissertation will be extracted and posted in the relevant section of the digital library.
06/15/26
United States Department of Commerce, World Trade in Duplicators 1953-1959
Lawrence, Robert de T., Rural Mimeo Newspapers: A Guide to the Production of Low-Cost Community Papers in Developing Countries, UNESCO, 1963.
Zeitlyn, Jonathan. Low Cost Printing for Development. 1982.
Zeitlyn, Jonathan. Print: How You Can Do It Yourself. n.d.
(added 7/30/26, 5th edition of the same book Print: How You Can Do It Yourself from 1992)
9/18/23
Irvin A. Hermann, The Manual of Office Reproduction