[6006] in APO Printshop
Re: Printing Press...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Thu Apr 15 21:35:49 2010
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:35:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Elizabeth Power! <epower@mit.edu>
cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu, apo@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4BC79EF6.4050506@mit.edu>
epower
do you have jillian's email address?
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press-ops
* please, if anyone else wants to reply, please do
if i see a need, i'll add on to other's replies
please ask her what model and make of press she has, etc.
including a web site...
* she may have found
http://www.mit.edu/~apo/printing/
on her own
you can also point her at
http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/printing/PressShop/PressShop/biba.med.tufts.edu/%257Ealan/Old/Press/
which is a draft of a replacement for http://www.mit.edu/~apo/printing/
that Alan Meisler did
http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/printing/PressShop/PressShop/
contains some of the files that have been used to manage the press.
might want to move stuff from here to this web directory
/mit/apo/PressShop/
i don't think there are any secrets in /mit/apo/PressShop/,
but it be wise to check before moving each file
* the policies etc. from the early decades are all on paper.
if someone wants to scan them in ...
* we ran the shop with a master/apprentice setup for the first few
decades, but it go that changed over time
* true press masters should be able to assembly, repair, and
reassemble their presses (i can, zok and asp probably still can).
but we would never qualify journeymen, if we required that
it also really takes a hoist to disassemble the large press
(though i have yet to disassemble a large press that way ; - )
yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:19:18 -0400
From: Elizabeth Power! <epower@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-printshop@mit.edu
Cc: apo@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Printing Press...
fyi
On 4/13/2010 5:00 PM, Jillian Wallis wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I run a printing press at UCLA and just had a quick question about what
> make and model press you folks have. I saw it once, roughly 15 years ago
> when my sister was in APO at MIT, but my knowledge of presses was
> lacking at the time, so I had no idea of how to mentally classify it.
>
> Also if you have a copy of your policies for press usage that would be
> super-helpful. We are trying to figure out how to have a working press
> community that proliferates knowledge through a master-apprentice model,
> and I heard rumor that you can qualify to be a master by being able to
> pull apart and reassemble your press. If we can get to that level of
> awesomeness, nothing will stop us!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jillian
