[5586] in APO Printshop
Re: Letterpress Printing - anne's jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Mon Feb 2 15:57:32 2009
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:57:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Cat Thu Nguyen Huu <catthu@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU, apo-president@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <BD9F6755-DDF2-4D15-9C4E-A24C59E7179E@MIT.EDU>
cat sent this just to me
but my reply is worth all seeing,
and being archived
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:40:13 -0500
From: Cat Thu Nguyen Huu <catthu@MIT.EDU>
Hi Len,
Thank you for your notice. I understand and do respect the fact that you
don't want to work on Anne's jobs. In case we do take this job, I hope you
will still give us your professional advice when we need it.
cat et. al.
i will provide expert advice on anne's job, to the extent i have time.
my normal policy.
(expert is a better word than professional, though not optimal ; - }
i didn't voice my objections before you agree to take it on,
and it's honourable to give you that much
---
here is some expert advice
it be better to print all components of an inviatation set all @ once
you are sure to get more consistent quality, and save ink, solvent,
and press cleanup time
perhaps with a team of press ops,
one can unlock the last part, and
lock up the next as a 2nd/3rd prints
i note it's tight back there for two people to be doing this
the type can be set in advance, and distributed later (shop policy
allows dated jobs to be held undistributed until the event is over
we also have enough quoins, chases and furniture (hopefully, enough
that is truly "square" and useable) that @ least 4 parts of an
invitation set could be locked up beforehand
(if you want to do this, please let me know a few days before hand,
so i can either show you where the extra furniture is, or get it out
for you)
i advise having all three rollers on the press,
gives much more consistent inking
yiLFS -len
Thanks a lot for your service and the work you have done in the recent week!
It indeed keeps things going and make it possible for us to work on BookEX
and Reg Day today.
Cat
Most welcome!
yiLFS -len
On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Leonard H Tower Jr. wrote:
> hi cat (and apo-printshop and apo-president)
>
> i realized going home saturday night, that there was a second reason
> why i did not wish to be involved with anne's wedding invitations
>
> it was one of the press shop items i had hoped to talked with you
> about after the chapter meeting, but you wanted to help with book ex
> setup, and said you preferred e-mail
>
> the first, which i have talked a little about via email, is that
> wedding invitations are not good jobs for training or qualifying runs
>
> the second is that AX shouldn't serve for-profit businesses or private
> individuals (even members of the mit community)
>
> i won't do either using AX facilities
> i wish my service to benefit non-profits and the work they do
>
> doing jobs for private individuals and for-profit businesses also
> violates the 501(c)3 tax-exempt status AX has both from MIT and
> National (it's more complicated than that, but it isn't worth the
> paperwork, even if MIT was willing to let us submit information for
> their 990A filing, and i expect it wouldn't pass the IRS regs in most
> cases)
>
> other press ops may feel differently about that, but i won't do
> anything further for anne's job, or jobs like it
>
> we have enough jobs about that can be used for training and
> qualifying. in fact, matt just gave me another that is perfect for a
> training run
>
> i'm sure that anne is a fine person, but that isn't what's important
> here
>
> there is more i will email about all the above in some days or next
> week, as well as the other half dozen or so open topics, but other
> parts of my life need attention
>
> i was ill the first week of iap, and quite ill the third week, and
> just did many days of service for ax this, the fourth week of iap:
> helped with the APOffice reorg, helped decker with her training run,
> did the typesetting for the reg day card over several days, helped
> kristen run the job over almost 10 hours on saturday, etc.
>
> thanx
>
> yiLFS -len
