[440] in APO Printshop
Re: draft of Chapter skill: Letterpress Printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Tue Sep 27 02:02:49 2005
To: tower@alum.MIT.EDU
cc: apo-mvp@MIT.EDU, apo-president@MIT.EDU, apo-printshop-manager@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:29:45 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 02:02:13 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Looks nice. I wonder if in the portion of the letter where you caution
them about the danger of using the press alone it would be appropriate to
mention the other things that one must look out for in the shop (the ones
that come to mind are the plentiful amount of lead in the shop and the
questionably carcinogenic solvents). On the other hand, that might just
make it sound scary.
Mitch
> Hi all,
>
> Any suggestions or improvements to the following?
>
> Liz:
>
> Here is the email for apo-pledges about the Letterpress Shop.
> I email it after people have a chance to comment.
>
> Does press training counts as a service project against the pledge
> requirements? Assuming the job is for APO, or an MIT organization.
> (The Press is part of the Service Program.) If a training run is
> personal, it isn't a service project. If yes, should I mention it?
>
> There is a lot of grunt work that could be done in the Press Shop.
> Service to Chapter kind of tasks. E.g. putting the type from old jobs
> away. Does this meet any of the pledge requirements? If yes, should
> I mention it?
>
> thanx either way!
>
> yiLFS -len
>
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> Subject: Chapter skill: Letterpress Printing
>
> Hi Pledges,
>
> If you haven't yet, you might want to follow the yellow wall into the
> depths of the back APOffice, and discover the Chapter's Letterpress
> Shop. Learning to print in the Shop is a Chapter skill.
>
> A few things about the Press Shop:
>
> * If no one in front of the APOffice, close the door when you leave.
> Even if there are brothers in the back APOffice.
>
> Why? Both Chapter, brother's, and other's property have occasionally
> been stolen out of the APOffice. If you are in the back of the
> APOffice, it is almost impossible to see or hear people coming into
> the front of the APOffice, especially if one is running the large
> press.
>
> * The Press is one of the Chapter's power tools, and is dangerous to
> use without appropriate safety training.
>
> * To be able to use the press by yourself, that is become a press
> operator, you have to be:
>
> * a brother of Alpha Chi
>
> * have successfully completed both a training run and a qualifying
> run, supervised by a brother qualified to train press operators.
>
> Non-brothers, including pledges, who are judged competent to use the
> press by a press trainer, can do so under the supervision of a press
> operator, who takes responsibility for their being in the APOffice,
> and their safe use of the press shop.
>
> * If you are interested in learning to use the press, please email
> apo-acl, or apo-printshop-manager to add you to the Athena mailing
> list:
>
> apo-printshop-wants-training
>
> * If you like to be trained soon, please send me an e-mail. I'm one
> of the brothers qualified to train others on the letterpress, and
> have recently been doing most of the training runs.
>
> We have these jobs available:
>
> Jobs for the Chapter (Chapter pays for any of the Shop's paper used)
> * Stationery for the Chapter. Both letterhead and envelopes.
> * Thank You Cards for AX to use.
> * Chapter Invites, e.g.
> - Steak Fry
> - SFF, Semi-Formal Formal
> - Initiation and Installation Banquet
>
> Jobs for the Shop (No charges. Any paper purchased charged to Press Fund)
> * Labels showing contents of type cases that don't have them
> * Pages for the APO Letterpress Shop Type Catalogue for faces that
> don't' have them.
>
> Jobs for yourself, or others at MIT, or non-profit groups. (There are
> nominal fees charged to recover costs.)
> * Stationery
> * Posters
> * Wedding and Anniversary Invitations
> * etc.
>
> A training run takes between 6 and 8 hours, and can be split into two
> roughly equal sessions. It is possible to train two people in one
> training run.
>
> A qualifying run usually take 3 to 4 hours.
>
> Plan to wear work clothes that you don't mind getting stained.
> Printing ink is like paint - grungy and messy. Gloves and aprons are
> available, but not 100% effective.
>
> If you're interested, please reply to me with a few possible times,
> and we can schedule a training session.
>
> yiLFS -len MIT '71
>
> PS: I was initiated into Alpha Chi in the Fall of '67. And help out
> with the press as asked by the actives.
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