A Simple Way to Make Overhead Transparencies

A Simple Way to Make Overhead Transparencies A very useful transparency for use with an overhead projector can he prepared, using a Mylar sheet protector. a piece of "one-shot" carbon paper, and a sheet of onionskin paper. The Mylar sheet protector is opened up and the carbon, cut to fit on the inside, is slipped in, and the sheet protector closed. The onionskin paper is then slipped under the projecting edge of the fold. The assembly can then be slipped into a typewriter and the material to be projected typed onto the onionskin. Upon completion, the carbon is removed end the sheet protector, with its message on one of the inside surfaces, is ready for projection. Alternatively, the onionskin may be held in place with a couple of paper clips and the material to be projected can he written or drawn on the onionskin with a hall noint Den. One advnntnee of this method is that a felt tio oen ma; be used to add material to the front of the transoarencv and .~... . the front Inter wiped clean, leawng the grriginal material u n d k r h e d . The Mylar sherr prowtors ma" he pllrchased nlmmt office supply storel at less than half the cost of thermal projection transparent ies, and a plentiiul supplv of I hr "one-shot" csrhon iz availnhle on most rampuoes from the multiple copy forms used for computer prmtmts uf cle.9 li*ts,grade IliLi. and other forma ~

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Volume 55, Number 8, August 1978 1 535