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1965 G. M. Beer Machines for Office Workers iv. 73 When the [correcting] fluid is applied [to the stencil] it will..seep through the incisions and make the carbon..adhere to the wax sheet; subsequently, at the duplicator, the carbon and backing sheets are removed, and in doing this it is..possible that the re-formed skin will also be detached so that both the incorrect letter, and the correction over it, appear on the duplicated sheet.

1972 T. Lilley K Section xl. 203 She had typed the ‘skin’; he would check it and then run off about four hundred copies.

1973 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 13/8 It was then discovered that one foolscap duplicating skin could produce only 10,000 copies. Four skins had to be typed and ‘run off’.

2006 A. C. Wheeler Bombs, Ruins & Honey 55 The extreme heat meant that the ink often dried up, resulting in unreadable text,or even, disastrously, a torn duplicating skin.