[3365] in APO Printshop
Re: poster printing questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Wed Nov 15 21:38:42 2006
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:38:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Heidi Holley <hholley@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200611092318.kA9NIO8X025579@outgoing.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:18:26 -0500
From: Heidi Holley <hholley@MIT.EDU>
Hello,
My name is Heidi Holley and I am the publicity chair for the MIT
Hippocratic Society. I was wondering about the printing services
you have available. What size posters are you able to print? What
kind of paper are they printed on, or do we provide our own paper?
Can you print in color? What is the price?
Thanks,
Heidi
Hi Heidi,
Just in case APO's Press Shop Manager didn't answer (or forgot to Cc:
the rest of us ;-).
The downside of our print shop is that this is a volunteer part of
APO's service program, and it can takes weeks to months to get a job
done. It depends on the job, and how much time our student members
have. Expect a minimum of two to three weeks, if paper and graphics
are in hand.
We've done event tickers, business cards, posters, letterhead,
envelopes, etc.
You can supply paper. We can supply paper, if its in our inventory.
We can try getting paper for you. It's sold at our cost.
Fees for actual press use are reasonable. A 1,000 of something in one
color is around $2.00 plus the cost of paper.
We have an old style press. The type has to be set character by
character and is in lead or wood.
Graphics/pictures have to be specially ordered from a master provided
by you. Unless we have something already set that you like.
We do not usually do close registration multi-color work. Fees and
paper waste would at least double.
We can print an image up to 10" x 15" with some constraints. On paper
that can be larger then that. We do not usually do runs larger then a
1,000 or so. The press is fed manually by hand.
http://mit.edu/tower/www/PressShop/biba.med.tufts.edu/%257Ealan/Old/Press/
and the pages under it will give you a better idea (it's an expanded
web site under development).
If you are still interested, we could arrange a time for you to come
by and see samples of jobs that have been done in the past, and
discuss what you want to print.
LSC has an offset print shop, they use to do their movie and lecture
posters. They can print up to 17"x22". They sometime do printing for
other groups.
yiLFS -len
