Mimeograph Spirit-Duplicator Purple Ditto

Render in the visual register of a 1960s through 1970s spirit-duplicator mimeograph print, the Ditto or Rex Rotary process. Medium: aniline-purple ink transferred from a wax master stencil to absorbent newsprint or low-grade copy paper. The line quality is soft and slightly blurred with characteristic streaks where the master was uneven, ink density varying from saturated indigo-purple at the top of the page to pale lavender at the bottom as the machine ran dry. Palette: cream or off-white paper, dominant purple-violet ink ranging from deep aniline to faded lilac, occasional smudges and finger-drags where the operator handled a still-damp page. Texture: paper has the soft pulpy quality of cheap school stock, the unmistakable patina of having been run through a hand-cranked drum. Lighting: fluorescent overhead from a parish office or union hall, slightly green-cool. Mood: the institutional underground, the smell of methanol solvent, the dignity of cheap reproducible communication for groups that print their own truth. Do not render any legible text, headlines, slogans, logos, watermarks, named hate symbols, or defamatory likeness of real persons; all text-feel is abstract purple ink texture only. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering.