[3187] in APO Printshop
Re: Wedding save-the-dates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Wed Oct 18 19:23:46 2006
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:23:26 -0400
From: tower@alum.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: whiting@MIT.EDU
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Press Ops:
1) Perhaps one of you could be in the APOffice this Fri 20 Oct at 4pm
to help James and his mother-in-law-to-be. If yes, please email
James and me. See his request below.
2) Perhaps one of you can work with James to get the save-the-dates cards
done for his wedding, before I am available in early November. James
has had one training run with Ellen three years ago, and no other
printing experience, and is not qualified to use the press by himself.
If yes, please email James and me.
yiLFS -len
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James:
Email between us has not worked well. I suggest, if you want my help
further with doing this favor for you, that we meet in the APOffice to
discuss this, face to face, after Thursday, 2 November. I left the
last six days flexible, so I could meet with you, but you got back to
me too late. Being so flexible was a major inconvenience for me.
You should have gotten in touch with apo-printshop@mit.edu months ago,
not just me two weeks ago. If you want a favor like this from your
brothers, you should give us the favor, back of the maximum amount of
time possible to help you. Fellowship should work both ways.
Have a look at the cartoon in the Press Shop: "You want it when?".
I do not have time to stop by the APOffice to get things out for you
to show your mother-in-law-to-be, before I go off to spend a few weeks
with my 82 year old Dad who lost my Mom recently.
Or to spend extensive time emailing you before I get back. It's too many
words to tell you where things are in the APOster Press Shop. Please
leave the shop as you find it. Please be careful poking around.
Dropping the small sample case, or a type case makes a mess that would
take hours to clean up, as well as damaging the contents.
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:06:48 -0400
From: James Whiting <whiting@MIT.EDU>
Will you be available this Friday around 4 to show my fiance's mother
the printing press and old samples? If not, I can do it myself, but you
know more about what we can actually do. Where do we have old samples of
wedding invitations and such things?
No, as the email I sent you earlier said. See appended.
Also, are you available this Sunday so that I can print the
save-the-dates as a training run?
No, as the email I sent you earlier said.
If not, is there some other time that would work for you?
After Thursday, 2 November, as the email I sent you earlier said.
I could set aside Sat 4 Nov starting around 10am to help you print the
Wedding save-the-dates. Expect the job to take 8 to 10 hrs. It might
take less. Please let me know sooner rather then later.
yiLFS -len
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:10:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Leonard H. Tower Jr. <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Wedding printing (was:Printing Press)
Hi James,
You're not very experienced as a printer. Not clear how much you'll
remember from the job you did with Ellen three years ago. I've looked
at it and it's a good job, but Ellen is a good printer and trainer. (I
wish she was having less trouble with her back - I would love to have
her able to handle some of the training load. It helps to learn from
more then one person.)
If I qualify you on the "save the date" job, do you plan to try to
print the rest of your wedding invites by yourself? It's possible,
that I or someone else could be around to help. I have much work in
the APOster Press to do, putting away old jobs, merging type cases,
etc. My priorities in the shop is to first train actives, take care of
the shop, improve the shop, and lastly train others (like yourself)
who are unlikely to become active in the shop.
I still think you, Mira, and her mother would end up happier going
with a commercial printer for the invites.
Each "job" is likely to take 6 to 10 hours, depending how good the
press op is. Beginners should assume 10. Save the date card 10 hrs.
Envelope for it another 10 hrs. And there are gotchas, like which can
of ink to use. We might have to try 2 or 3.
Training, qualifying and any runs can be split roughly in half.
First, set the type. And in a second session, setup, run the job, and
put the type away.
Guess, we don't know the scope of the job until you, Mira, and her Mom
look at samples and work out what they want.
The afternoon of the 22nd does not work for me. I not available at
all from Thu 19 Oct to and including Thu 2 Nov.
I could meet with Mira's Mom and you (and Mira?), or work on your
qualifying run:
Fri 13 Oct 1pm-5pm
Sat 14 Oct 1pm-5pm
Sun 15 Oct 1pm-9pm
Mon 16 Oct 1pm-9pm
Tue 17 Oct 1pm-5pm
Wed 18 Oct 1pm-5pm
ask for Nov dates and times, if they are needed.
Please pick two or three times. I can't hold all this time open
waiting on a decision from you all on when to meet in the APOffice.
I doubt we'll need an hour, but I could spare two to figure things
out.
I know where the wedding and misc invitations are. Not all the
typefaces are displayed on the wall. Finishing the APOster Type
Catalog is still an ongoing project. ;-}
You are welcome to seek other press ops via apo-printshop@mit.edu
Sadly, I am the only journeyman/teacher who is training and
qualifying. Though it can't hurt you to ask Ellen.
yiLFS -len
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