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Re: Fwd: If you had a card of "useful info"... what would you put
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Sat Aug 8 06:54:55 2009
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 06:53:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
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Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 23:43:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ellen Kranzer <ccrazy@panix.com>
To: mitchb@mit.edu
Cc: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@mit.edu>, Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@mit.edu>,
Lori Tsuruda <lori@pmd.org>, apo-discuss@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Fwd: If you had a card of "useful info"... what would you put on
it?
Mitch is right, paper won't hold up, but you don't need to get as
thick as Jersey cards or to laminiate things. Business card stock
will hold up, I've got business cards that I've carried around for
years.
To increasing the likelihood that someone will keep it in their
wallet, you don't want to make it too thick. A single fold is probably
the max or single thinkness laminated.
If you want to pursue the lamination issue, I've bought supplies from
Laminiation Depot. The credit card size price list is here:
http://www.laminationdepot.com/Credit-Card/products/26/
Y.I.S.
Ellen
mitchb@mit.edu wrote:
>This is a neat idea, but in reality, if the goal is for it to be a
>"forever useful, always keep in your wallet" sort of thing, just
>printing it on paper isn't really going to cut it - it'll rub off,
>get scuffed, bent, creased, torn, etc. after it gets used a few
>times, and yes, while Jersey cards would probably be the most
>resillient thing we have for that, they're indeed too big for your
>typical wallet.
>
>To really produce something with staying power, you would probably
>want actual plastic cards - in fact, there used to be such cards
>that were given out around the start of the year, maybe by the
>ARC, maybe the Coffeehouse, I forget. I still have mine in my
>wallet. I'll go drop it in Kristin's mailbox to look at, but I'd
>like it back at some point. You can tell by looking at it that
>I've had it ~forever, but you can still read and use it. It had
>a bunch of important phone numbers, a Coffeehouse coupon, and a
>bunch of alcohol facts on the back. They don't do this anymore?
>
>But I doubt we're going to get platic cards, and I suspect that
>printing with our rubber-based ink on them wouldn't actually resist
>rubbing the way real dye-sublimation printing does. So, if you
>want these to really work, what I'd suggest is that you print them
>approximately business-card size, maybe a bit smaller, and get
>them *laminated* - that'll allow them to be used forever.
>Unfortunately, we don't have laminating materials. They can get
>their cards laminated at CopyTech, but it costs more than it
>ought to. LSC actually does have a desktop laminating machine,
>though I'm not entirely sure how we are on supplies for it. If
>you want to go that route and are willing to cover the cost of
>consumables for it, I'd be willing to ask if LSC can loan it to
>APO. (It's specifically used to laminate business card sized
>media.)
>
>Mitch
