Copiers
I did this once when I was in college. I had a art-related newsletter some classmates and I put together. It was rather zine-ish. We spent time at Kinko’s cutting and pasting. With today’s technologies, having a printer & scanner at home and using Photoshop kinda makes Kinko’s a little irrelevant.
Kinkos irrelevant? Mais Non! I remember using kinko’s back in the eighty’s
to copy flyers for shows, demo tape matirial, and other band type stuff.
I still use them for various things.
By the way, how do you order pizza to kinko’s without them thinking that it is for them?
It was mimeographing in my day…
Got involved with publishing a ‘zine back in my college days in the early ’70s. Kinko’s?? Bah, nothing so mundane. I can recall staying up all night to justify a column of text manually, only to learn the next morning when the regular staff walked in that I could have done it electronically. When they saw my work, they offered me a job on the spot.
Thanks for the definition, Brig. I was afraid of embarrassing myself by asking “What’s a zine?”
Squid: you let the staff know that you ordered the pizza, but you also order enough to share.
Perfect bound books are easy to set up, saddle stitched, that gets interesting.
Kinko’s is still a quick & easy source for passport photos.
Squid… you get the pizza man’s attention right when he walks thu that door! No doubt the whole place will smell of Meat Pizza with extra meat (Randie’s favorite kind).
DCS… your story reminds me of working for The Fallbrook Enterprise… my first real job. I worked in various areas, but loved working in paste-up… where we literally PASTED up the ads and waxed them onto large gridded bristol boards… which were then photographed and burnt into plates… and then printed. Oh the joy of old technology.
Yat… I suspected a lot of my newspaper readers would need some clarification… and so there you go. As far as ordering pizza… does anybody know what your local Kinko’s looks like at say 11pm? I got my last pastport pic at a local UPS-TYPE store. I needed it lickity split, and the UPS store was closed. It turned out perty alright…the people were super nice and I shopped local.
Jack… that sounds nicer than the stapling… which I’ll do first off… and perhaps move up later.
Yup yup. You pick up quickly how to properly lay out a zine, but there’s always a few mistakes to be made beforehand, usually in the page layout stage. I should have saved my old “defects” but I was too embarrassed to let anyone ever see them!
Personally love Kinko’s (now called FedEx Office after the buyout). Was there three times yesterday making copies of drawings so as to use them (resized &/or reversed) as templates to finish pictures.
Oh great, now the copier will have greasy pepperoni stains on the glass… that will then get transfered to the originals of the next guy trying to make a copy. “Pizza meat,” and cheese, has a lot of fat in it. Seems the “Mamas” reak havoc wherever their art projects take them.
Okay, so the place was (and by many is still) called Kinko’s because that was the nickname of the guy who started it while in college (he had “kinky” hair). So what about Binko’s name here?
Hey, hold the presses, er… copier.
Use of “appropriated” content that is then self-published???
Are we talking plagerized purloined material or that for which permission has been given from its copyright holder?
Those art-o-rama girls may be more pirates than mamas.
I copied a SF story out of an anthology (By His Bootstraps — didn’t everybody?) Made a rather neat little booklet of 3 or 4 sheets folded in the middle — all done on a typewriter.
one of the odd things i collect is local radio station memorabilia. pat hathaway, the guy who has the largest collection of monterey bay historical images in the area (so large even newspapers visit his office from time to time) had a collection of KMBY top 40 surveys from the 60’s and i couldn’t wait to get my hands on them. he let me borrow them and i took them over to kinko’s where i painstakingly chose the proper paper to use on which to most faithfully reproduce them (some colors of paper used back in the ’60’s don’t seem to be used today) and then proceeded to photocopy them. the entire process took me well over an hour and a half, but the end product formed the core of my collection.