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Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors

Posted by samzenpus on from the goodbye-wite-out dept.

SEWilco pointed out that the last typewriter factory has shut its doors. Indian typewriter manufacturer Godrej and Boyce stopped production today after 60 years. The company's general manager, Milind Dukle, says, "We are not getting many orders now. From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us."

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  1. Re:This is just not true by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes. Also the company is not shutting down. It is merely selling the last 500 manual typewriters and focusing on its other products. It also stopped making them in 2009.

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  2. Re:This is just not true by MarkGriz · · Score: 5, Informative

    I assume that this is the last *manual* typewriter factory.

    Nope. Someone posted this comment there:

    This article is NOT correct. I am with Royal Consumer Information Products in Somerset, NJ. We have been making typewrithers for over 100 years. We are still making both manual and electronic typewriters and we have no plans to discontinue them! True, the market size is small in comparison to what it once was but there is still a steady demand for both types of typewriters.

    So, it appears to be a crap story. Moreover, WTF does this have to do with news for nerds

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  3. Re:Harry Potter by jittles · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sorry but a selectric model 251 doesn't exist.

  4. Re:Manual Typewriters Only. by fast+turtle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Okidata Dot Matrix (9 pin) printer handles multipart forms quite well. It also does a decent job on mailing labels.

    I use an HP Laserjet for printing my mailing labels. Works well as long as you don't buy inkjet only labels. Get the Laser Labels and you wont have probls.

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  5. Re:This is just not true by mariox19 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took a look at the Royal Consumer Information Products site, and it seems like they're either no longer selling manual typewriters or are currently out of them, with no word as to when they'll have them back in stock.

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  6. Re:This is just not true by rubycodez · · Score: 5, Informative

    Typewriters still have at least two important uses. One is for filling out duplicate/triplicate/quadruple pressure-sensitive forms that have to be done in either pen or typewriter (I had to do some a couple years back for a foreign government as part of immigration of relative).

    The other important use is that some famous writers love them rather than computers for whatever reason, some authors that slashdotters like might be some of those people.