You don't necessary need a contact printing device to make a contact print. There are plenty of ways how to do it yourself. The process requires that the original film and unexposed print stock are sandwiched together (emulsion against emulsion) and exposed by light.

Here are few options for contact printing without a contact printer device:

- You can adjust your editing table for contact printing. You have to make a cover for the lamp like showed in pictures below. Adding coloured filters will allow you to make colour prints.

- You can use sync block and a torch or flash light to make a contact print. The problem using it could be controlling the speed, so, if you want a stable and controllable speed, you need to have a motor for this one.

Double loading a bolex camera for contact printig has the lenght limitation to about 7 meters (because the take up reel accepts 30 meters and it is complicated to do a perfect 15 meter by-pack.

- This way you can make longer prints on both - image and sound.

- The image will be printed in the size of the projector’s gate. This means that for a perfect playback you need to be very meticulous about setting the projector gate exactly in the middle of the image being copied so as not to see a black border appear on top or on the bottom of your image. The printed image’s width will also depend on your projector gate: using the same projector for playback can be a solution. Any way, this defect can become part of the game, allowing you to making an image which hops from the bottom to the top of the frame… you can use additional cache to play with the frame more broadly.

- This type of contact printer has a few particularities: you can turn on and off the sound or flashlight at any moment, you can charge loops and make a very raw mix of superpositions in sound and image, you can change the position of the gate to make the image move up and down,
you can suddenly stop the contact during the printing, you can also create masks.

- Detailed tutorial how to contact print with a projector here.

- The simplest way to copy something without any special machines is by flatprinting: laying raw film stock flat on a straight surface, placing your original film or object on the film, flattening the ensemble to ensure contact using a piece of glass, and using a flashlight or other manageable light source to expose the film. This practice has a length limitations (usually about 2 meters).