[5540] in APO Printshop
Re: Wedding invitations - late fees + accepting jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Sun Jan 18 18:36:45 2009
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:36:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64L.0901181713160.32496@w20-575-82.mit.edu>
* it has always been the policy of the press shop that
ONLY QUALIFIED PRESS OPERATORS CAN ACCEPT JOBS
not the press shop manager
not the service vice president
not a chapter officer
not God ; - }
* the press shop manager has to try and find press ops to do jobs,
NOT ACCEPT JOBS
* if a press shop manager (psm) who is a press operator accepts a job,
then he/she should be sure they have the time to do it for the
customer by the time the customer needs it
it's ok for the psm to try to get another press operator to do the
job, even trying to get a journeyman and a wantabe press op together
to get a training or qualifying run completed
* late fees have never been good in getting customers to give us
enough notice.
they create an expectation, that the APOster letterpress shop can
get work done on short notice, if the customer is willing to pay
more.
when the reality is:
getting a job printed depends on a qualified press op having the
time to do the job
when we had many press ops who could print, it was a way to earn a
little more money for the press fund.
but we haven't had this many press ops in a long time
it is more important, that potential customers understand that
letterpress printing is very labor intensive.
that is is NOT like using a word processor and a computer printer.
that every character is on a physical piece of metal, that needs to
be hand assembled, and dis-assembled.
that every piece of paper needs to be feed and taken out of the
press by hand
and that there are other steps that take a lot of time
a short way of saying this, is to tell the customer it could take a
volunteer ten hours or more to do their print job
* btw, i dislike training or qualifying on jobs that need high quality.
though i do do it.
it's hard for a novice to do a high quality job the first or second
time out.
which means, i do more of the real work, and they have less of a
learning experience
yiLFS -len
ps: i suspect that the time frame Anne has for her wedding invitations
will allow Cat to get me or Lori to use Anne's jobs for training or
qualification runs, but maybe not ...
