[5461] in APO Printshop
Re: Fwd: Letterpress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Sat Sep 6 23:46:21 2008
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 23:44:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: apo-exec@MIT.EDU
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU, Mandi Holmes <holmesmd@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64L.0809051822570.24687@beautiful-katamari.csail.mit.edu>
LORI:
want to either train or qualify him?
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EVERYONE:
if no one has an objection,
i'll offer to train him on the letterpress,
and babysit him in the APOffice occasionally
i'll email him sometime on Monday
i'll be clear, he can't have unsupervised access to the shop
i'll also point out the etching press at the SAA etching press
http://saa.mit.edu/classes/index.php?id=twod&quarter=Fall&qyear=2008
and the LSC offset facility
yiLFS -len
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 18:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mandi Holmes <holmesmd@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Fwd: Letterpress
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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