[5460] in APO Printshop
Re: Fwd: Letterpress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mandi Holmes)
Fri Sep 5 18:23:34 2008
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mandi Holmes <holmesmd@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3d361e050809051517p52c14040k384348772d55e2f8@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Samuel Evans wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Mike Tarkanian is a technical instructor in the department of Materials
> Science and Engineering at MIT. I've worked with him on several projects at
> MIT.
>
> He's interested in using our letter press to learn its operation.
>
> He is skilled in metallurgy and machining, among other talents. He might be
> willing to manufacture custom letter press blocks, if you are interested.
> He is not a current or former APO brother.
>
> Please forward this request to the letter press people, and copy Mike on it
> (tarky@mit.edu). I don't remember the proper e-mail list, so I'm asking you
> all.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yilfs,
> Samuel
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Tarkanian <tarky@mit.edu>
> Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:10 PM
> Subject: Letterpress
> To: Samuel J Evans <s_evans@mit.edu>
>
>
> Hi Samuel-
>
> For a long time I've had a fascination with letterpress printing. I happened
> to see on the web that APO has (or had) a letterpress. Lately I've been
> thinking it would be cool to make my own blocks with the CNC, lasercutter,
> etc. So I went over to APO to see if I could see the letterpress -- the
> office was closed but I noticed you're an officer.
>
> Could I check out the letterpress sometime? Does it actually get used? Can
> MIT people use it or only APO? Think you guys would be interested in getting
> custom letterpress blocks??!!??
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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