[5356] in APO Printshop
Re: Briar Press Website.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Jan 25 20:39:46 2008
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:39:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Kate Mahoney <kate_mahoney@alum.MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200801240225.m0O2PSZe020621@geskekelud.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:25:28 -0500
From: Kate Mahoney <kate_mahoney@alum.MIT.EDU>
I recently discovered the Briar Press web site and thought I'd pass it
along. They have lots of pictures of all sorts of presses, a
classifieds section (including this free press sitting in Cambridge,
http://www.briarpress.org/8603, that I hope finds a home rather than
gets scrapped), and a section called Cuts and Caps, which is scans of
old letterpress art scanned & converted into PostScript files, which
they make available.
the ad seems to be gone for this press. it was a 12x16(?) C&P the next
size up from the 10x15 C&P large press in the back APOffice
we had a little zephyr on this press today, my comment
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the press is tempting
it a bit too big for people under 5'8" to feed,
but i know how to fix that
it's a ton to two, so we need a special tailgate
and special lifts, on wheels - a special kind of cart
or a $1,000 or so to have jobbers do it
and either a place to store it, that's dry with good flooring that
support the weight, or convince the actives to give us a big chunk of
the front\ APOffice
we also have to check that the loading dock elevator is wide enough
it's close
if anyone wants to go for this, my advice is here
that is, ask me for advice or help
be wise to go look at it first, and make sure any repairs are possible
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yiLFS -len
