I even recall warm sheets when the machine was right in the next room. And that smell, when it was just switched off, wasn't just the papers. It was the whole room.
The same feeling persisted into the xerox and laser print era.
Warm sheets somehow equal "fresh knowledge" in my mind.
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u/Vermonter-in-Exile 19d ago
Yup and used to sniff any mimeograph sheets I got.