[30] in APO Printshop
Re: Baby press for activities midway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benazeer Noorani)
Fri Sep 3 13:37:01 2004
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:36:57 -0400
From: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
Reply-To: benazeer@MIT.EDU
To: Alex Vandiver <alexmv@mit.edu>
Cc: benazeer@mit.edu, apo-printshop@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200408292005.i7TK5m3w015792@mint-square.mit.edu>
Argh. Stuff came up at home (the rooming scheme got rearranged and so
I have to move, again, and people are waiting for me to get out of
this room so they can move in) So, it looks like I won't be able to
make it to the midway until much later
I'm really sorry. Is there someone who can cover for me for the first
half? Setting up the baby press is easy, and I've included directions
at the bottom of this email. The real trouble is that type is not
locked up yet, so if someone could go poke around and find the block
of type from the last midway (I didn't break it, and I put it on the
"job will be rerun shelf") and swap out dates and lock it up, that
would be terrific.
Thanks!
Benazeer
The baby press should already be on a small cart. Small rollers are on
top of a stand behind the letterpress. Take two rollers with you (They
are so old and in such poor condition that it takes two of them to
properly ink the plate) as well as ink, pushpush, some business cards,
paper towers, bedding, guage pins, etc. etc.
There should be type set (though not locked up - I was going to do
that , er, right now) from last midway with info about APO to go on
the business cards. Else it would be easy to just lock up one of the
cuts that have the crest and letters. It should go without saying that
you should use a small chase, not a large one.
Put in on the plate same as you would for a run on the letter press.
There's a handle that you pull to run the rollers over the plate.
There is no safety lever, because everything is entirely manually
operated.
Hopefully that's enough information for pressops who have never used
the baby press before.
Thanks
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:05:48 -0400, sasen <sasen@mit.edu> wrote:
> I can be the press op working from 5:30-7. I don't know how to set up
> the baby press though, so that will need to be operational by that
> point.
> yilfs
> --sasen
>
>
>
> > I'd love to. I can't be there the whole midway, because I'm also doing
> > stuff for another group. So if another pressop wants to work from
> > 5:30-7, that would be terrific
> >
> > YiLFS
> >
> > -Benazeer
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:56:34 -0400, Alex Vandiver <alexmv@mit.edu> wrote:
> > > Heya,
> > > It'd be cool if the baby press were at the Activities midway on Friday
> > > (setup from 2-4, midway from 4-7) Would one (or more!) of the press ops
> > > be around during the midway proper to demo it? I'll probably also need
> > > a hand carting it (and any associated chemicals and detritus) over
> > > during setup, as well.
> > > YiLFS,
> > > - Alex
> > >
> > > --
> > > Networking -- one letter away from not working
> > >
> > >
>
