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Fwd: Re: poster printing inquiry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Fri Apr 21 00:14:41 2006
To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:14:27 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Well, at least our name is out there now. Hopefully this'll be good for
the future.
Mitch
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:41:37 -0400
From: Austin Zimmerman <austinz@MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: poster printing inquiry
Mitch,
Thanks so much for writing me back, I really appreciate it. I will
forward the information to next year's event chairs, and make sure
people in our chapter know the service is available for other forms
of publicity we may do for events in the future. We usually use LSC,
but this year their prices were event more expensive than copytech
for what we wanted to do. Fortunately, I talked to Copytech today and
they gave us a discount and some free stuff as a sponsorship for our
philanthropy event. So, we won't need your help this time around but
possible sometime in the future.
Also, I emailed apo@mit.edu also today to inquire about purchasing
drop poster supplies tomorrow, and I didn't get a response. Do you
happen to know if someone will be in your office around noon or later
in the day tomorrow and I could drop by?
Thanks again for being so helpful.
- -Austin.
On Apr 20, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Mitchell E Berger wrote:
> Hi Austin,
>
>> I saw on your website that you do printing. We are doing publicity
>> for AXO
>> Lip Sync, our philanthropy event next weekend. I'm guessing it's
>> too late
>> for this year, but I'm wondering what the details are. Do you do
>> full color
>> and big posters like 11x17? What is the cost?
>
> First, I'd like to thank you for writing to us and expressing
> interest in
> our services - it's always great to hear from people who haven't
> used us
> in the past. Unfortunately, as you've guessed, we don't really
> have the
> manpower resources available to set up and print a job on this
> short notice,
> though.
>
> It's unlikely that the APO printshop could do exactly what you want
> anyway,
> but I'd be happy to explain the types of things that we are good at
> printing in the hopes that we might be able to do something else
> for you
> in the future, as well as a couple of other options you might be
> able to
> investigate for posters.
>
> Our offset press can print a variety of sizes of media, roughly up to
> 8.5" x 11", though most often we specialize in smaller media (down to
> business card size). Examples of things we've printed include
> business
> cards, admission tickets to MIT theatrical productions, Multicards and
> Munchipasses for LSC, save-the-date and RSVP cards, small event
> announcement
> cards, and perhaps most impressively wedding invitations. If you're
> interested, we'd be happy to set up a time to show you samples of the
> various print jobs we've run. We have a good variety of fonts and
> print
> sizes, and with enough lead time, it's possible to have images
> turned into
> printable blocks. In general, though, we're not able to print
> arbitrary
> pictures. We can print in any of a number of colors, and can put
> multiple
> colors into a single job (either fading color from side-to-side or
> having
> specific parts of the design be specific colors). However, it
> depends on
> what you mean by "full color" - we can put an arbitrary number of
> colors
> into a design (though more colors is more expensive), but it's not
> a CMYK
> process where we can mix colors to produce a photograph-quality image.
> Our prices are quite modest - not much above cost. I don't have them
> on-hand, but if you're still interested in looking at the types of
> jobs
> we've done, we can go through our price list at the same time.
>
> As for your 11x17 posters, depending on the color requirements, one
> possibly inexpensive way to do them would be to silkscreen them. APO
> also has a silkscreening program that used to produce very nice large
> posters for lots of MIT groups. In recent times, our silkscreening
> program
> hasn't produced anything other than shirts, but our Silkscreening
> Chair
> has expressed interest in talking with you about what you'd like to do
> and seeing if it would be possible to do what you'd like in the
> future.
> As with the printshop, they don't have enough leadtime to do a good
> job
> for you this time around. If you'd like to talk with our silkscreen
> chair, you should drop an e-mail to riv@mit.edu (or
> apo-silkscreen-chair@mit.edu).
>
> Finally, LSC has a printing press that's better suited to handling
> large
> print media than ours is (but as a tradeoff, it's not as good at
> handling
> small items, which is why we print their Munchicards and Multipasses).
> I don't know very many details about their press, but I am told
> that they
> accept outside jobs. I've also heard that their color capabilities
> are
> similar to our printshop's as described above, and that they also
> wouldn't
> have enough leadtime to do the job for you this time. If you'd
> like to
> discuss your requirements with them and see what sort of quote they
> can
> provide, you should drop a note to their Publicity Director at
> lsc-publicity-dir@mit.edu.
>
> Good luck with these leads - we hope we'll be able to help you in some
> way in the future. Best of luck with Lip Sync, too!
>
> Mitch Berger
> APO Printshop Manager
>
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