[5347] in APO Printshop
updating website
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Tu)
Tue Jan 22 19:59:27 2008
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:59:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jennifer Tu <jtu@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
cc: zev@MIT.EDU
The website (http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/printing.shtml) currently only
says this:
APO provides limited printing services to the community at cost using
the machine in our office.
To request more information about printing, contact us at apo-printshop
_at_ mit.edu .
I'd like to update it to the text below. I'll put it up in a few days
after other people have had a chance to take a read-through and
comment/correct problems.
APO provides limited printing services to the community using
our office's 1925 printing press. Press operators donate their time,
and the printing is done at cost.
Printing costs vary with each job. Basically, there is a setup fee and
a per-impression fee, in multiples of 100. The setup fee varies with
the complexity of the job, and the per-impression fee depends on the
type of paper used (you may either choose from our paper selection, or
provide your own).
Our press can print anything from business cards to envelopes to
invitations to letter-sized paper. Due to the large amount of time
involved in laying out and locking up text, the press is not a good
choice if you're looking for a low number of copies. The high level of
setup required for each job also means turnaround time on a job is
almost one month. Also, because each paper is hand-fed into the press,
and ink levels vary over the course of a printing run, the press is not
a good choice for a job that requires absolute uniformity across all
finished products.
If your job is a good fit for our printing press (large number of
prints, smaller than letter-sized), contact us at apo-printshop _at_ mit
_dot_ edu to work out details with us. <b>Turnaround time is three
weeks from finalization of text and layout.</b>
--Jennifer
