[5331] in APO Printshop
Re: Print Run Successful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Sun Jan 13 18:59:10 2008
To: Michael Person <mjperson@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:37:02 EST."
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:58:53 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Hi Mike,
> Kate and I successfully concluded our print run today.
Congratulations!
> 1) Inspection revealed that the use of rubber bands to hold blocks
> of type together has been deprecated in favor of tying them together
> with string. However, we could find no source of string or runner bands
> anywhere in the shop. Did we just miss it?
Yes, unless it's gone missing recently. There is a spool of string
threaded through a little eyelet on the righthand side of the wooden
set of shelves that hold stock and type trays (so, it's immediately to
your left if you're facing the stone).
> 2) When laying out pins we noticed that there didn't seem to be a
> T square or protractor anymore, just the usual rulers. Did these
> things get moved, or are they just gone?
Hm. I'd sort of be surprised if we had no T square or protractor hanging
around somewhere, but I'd have to look in person.
> 3) Kate and I were both convinced that the first step in cleaning the
> roller/platten was to apply "Easy Street". We also remember something
> called "goop" which may or may not have been the same thing. The
> phrase "roller conditioner" also came to mind. But in searching
> around,
> we found none of this stuff, and ended up cleaning everything with
> blanket wash. Are those other substances no longer used, or did we
> just not find anything?
Indeed, the general procedure these days just uses whatever's in the
push-push, which I believe is currently Varn Pronto blanket wash. I
feel like I've heard the name "Easy Street" before, but am not certain
what it is. I do know that we've tried multiple solvents at times; not
sure what "goop" was. I'm also not sure about roller conditioner or how
often it used to get used, and imagine that Len will comment, but something
possibly relevant is that in the past decade we've had most of the rollers
recast from true rubber to a composition compound; perhaps that deprecated
the need for roller conditioner.
Thanks also for distributing so much type (yes, I read the story)!
Mitch
