[5850] in APO Printshop
Re: Stock for thank-you cards?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cat Thu Nguyen Huu)
Wed Oct 7 01:15:59 2009
Cc: apo-printshop <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
From: Cat Thu Nguyen Huu <catthu@MIT.EDU>
To: Kevin Riggle <kevinr@free-dissociation.com>
In-Reply-To: <1254889879-sup-5830@black-opal.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 01:15:51 -0400
Taken care of through Zephyr.
--Cat
On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Kevin Riggle wrote:
> I'm thinking of doing a run of thank-you card-type pieces, not sure
> yet whether
> with just text or a design or some combination. I wanted these for
> myself
> first, but I only need a few tens and the press is suited to
> hundreds. I
> thought the extra might sell well to the general public, the same
> way we sell
> t-shirts etc., and other people in the chapter seem to agree, so my
> tentative
> deadline is "in time for UMOC", which gives me a month or so.
>
> A couple questions:
>
> * I looked at our stock for wedding invitations, but it all seems
> very, very
> nice heavy paper, nicer than I want for the note I dash off to my
> grandmother
> to thank her for the $20 she gave me for my birthday. Do we have
> other stock
> of similar size but lighter and preferably not paneled on hand? If
> not,
> anybody know of a good place to get some? I'm looking at eg. the 5
> 1/2-bar/A2
> cards from the Paper Works, but at 110lb it's way heftier than I
> want, I think.
>
> http://www.paperworks.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=KC5
> 5CRC&Category_Code=Announcements&Product_Count=39
>
> * Where in the press shop should I look for trays of linocuts /
> designs /
> dingbats / interesting symbols to print?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Kevin
> --
> Kevin Riggle (kevinr@free-dissociation.com)
> http://free-dissociation.com
