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Thanks, Laurenz, for links. Lots of details on Erikas (and a reminder of how rusty my German is).
The 1.5mm Olympia typefaces are interesting (not for daily use, though). I wonder if they shipped those machines with narrower line spacing (the specimen looks like they didn't).
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Hi Rob and Laurenz
The 1.5mm typeface works out to 17 cpi. A Type-Pal member in the USA has an Olympia SG-1 with 1.5mm (17 cpi) and I received a letter typed on that machine. A good pair of reading glasses is a must for me to be able to read that type. However, wouldn't that have been a great machine for typing on those Aerogram letters? You would be able to get a lot of information on the 3-fold correspondence. All the best,
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Looks like some ribbon suppliers even recommended a differing "inking" for Pica versus Elite type-sizes.
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Pete E. wrote:
Looks like some ribbon suppliers even recommended a differing "inking" for Pica versus Elite type-sizes.
Given that Elite slugs are likely to foul quicker than Pica from over-inking, it was a nice option to have back when ribbon was still being produced globally, and didn't all originate from one Chinese factory (speculation).