SADA 15 (1927)

This is an old “Sada 15” mimeograph, it’s an Italian manufacturer, founded in Milano, Italy, in 1927.

We could say that the mimeograph was an ancestor of modern copiers. But they weren’t real copiers. They were duplicators. They used the mimeograph’s technology, which requires the preliminary preparation of a matrix from which multiple copies can be made, but which does not allow the reproduction of an already printed document.

In the end of ’50 years, after being part of the public company IRI (Institute for Industrial Reconstruction) SADA became a subsidiary of Olivetti. With Olivetti, SADA relaunched the production of duplicator, both alcohol and ink.

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