[5464] in APO Printshop
Re: Letterpress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Tue Sep 9 22:02:19 2008
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:00:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Mike Tarkanian <tarky@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <DCDC9188-B307-4A6E-A8C0-3A3C2AE8B109@mit.edu>
hi mike,
apo-printshop is Bcc:ed (Blind Carbon Copy)
* this is possible
i'm the one who has volunteered to do it
i'll email you in the next week or so about a tour
and the limited access available to those who are not members of APO
i am way over committed for the next 3 to 4 weeks
* what days and times are you usually on campus?
* you might want to look into the bow and arrow press in adams house
at harvard
they might be intrigued with access to rapid fab blocks
they also have a vandercock which allows much finer registration and
control than the chandler and price presses APO has
* the student art association has an etching press, and offer classes
and access to the community, students get preference, summer classes
seldom fill
http://saa.mit.edu/classes/index.php?id=twod&quarter=Fall&qyear=2008
it be possible to make plates for that press with rapid fab
* the lecture series committee has an offset printing shop
http://lsc.mit.edu/ (no info on it there)
they print their posters on it
no idea what the current policy on outside access is
but if you wanted to be an lsc member who prints ...
making offset plates with rapid fab is possible, but i don't see why
it's useful
* apo, saa, and lsc are all on the 4th floor of the student center
best -len
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:42:25 -0400
From: Mike Tarkanian <tarky@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@mit.edu
Subject: Letterpress
Hello-
I was referred to you by Samuel Evans. I'm Mike Tarkanian, I'm an
instructor in Materials Science. I've always had a fascination with
letterpress and it just came to my attention that APO has a
letterpress. One of the things I do for DMSE is run a rapid
fabrication shop, and it occurred to me that it would be a really
cool project to make custom blocks for letterpress. We have the
facilities to basically make any kind of block -- any image, any
material, etc.
I'm wondering if it might be possible for me to come see the
letterpress at some point, see how it works, and get a feel for
it. Maybe down the line we could make some custom blocks for it!
Thanks,
Mike
