[5610] in APO Printshop
Re: Letterpress Printing - anne's jobs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Thu Feb 12 00:08:47 2009
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:08:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Cat Thu Nguyen Huu <catthu@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64L.0902021703560.6875@w20-575-83.mit.edu>
hi catthu (& ink wizards)
points about anne's job,
from my consult with lori & ellen
* we agreed anne's job is printable with some embossing on the front,
but no embossing visible/feelable on the back
the embossing could damage the type, and @ least will wear it out
quicker
due to unevenness of surface, the strokes that make up each letter
could look uneven.
thicker where the embossing occurs, that is, where the surface is
high. this is due to ink being deposited on the sides as well as
the bottom of the groove caused by embossing
* brown will look bolder on the printed type compared to the thin
strokes of the leaves, as the strokes that make up the type will be
wider, even if the brown you print with is exactly the same shade
* the script face anne used is very close to Typo Script
Typo Script is among the most damaged typefaces in the press shop,
but you should be able to find enough characters in decent shape for
the few lines you need
try to find characters that have the connecting strokes undamaged
* none of the typefaces the press shop have with small caps, are like
the one anne's sample uses
(small caps are smaller capitals set on the same point size body as
the large caps that most faces have)
the closest the press shop has is 12 pt copperplate gothic heavy no
25 & no 26. this face does not have serifs, like the one anne used,
and is a good bit smaller than the one she used
trying to use, e.g. 14pt caps and 12pt caps is hard. it's almost
impossible to get the baselines to line up, and you have to cut thin
leads to fill the 2pt gap above the small caps in each word.
to do it this way would take a lot of time to set the type,
and be almost as hard as the reg day
schedule card to lock up
if this was my job, i would ask anne, if some other face would do,
using caps and lower-case
i don't know how much latitude she and you negotiated. that is,
how much you can vary from her specification, without talking with
her
yiLFS -len
