[6370] in APO Printshop
Re: Reg day run
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Mon Aug 29 13:26:17 2011
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:26:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@alum.mit.edu>
cc: Alexandra Westbrook <alexwest@mit.edu>, apo-printshop-journeyman@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CACNgQeik2fAr9+heOQ93DaU_LZzvkr705J5PW=iH1OGV2kG=GA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:13:45 -0600
From: Kristin Kuhn <kkuhn@alum.mit.edu>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Alexandra Westbrook <alexwest@mit.edu>, apo-printshop-journeyman@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Reg day run
Ah Len, sorry -- I forgot that rkw was also a skilled press op! Thus, I
directed Alex to you. I am glad your memory is better than mine.
No problem!
I believe we still have a bunch of blank notecards leftover from last term.
They should be in the grey file cabinet, where we keep the
sharpies/pens/paper clips/etc. The second drawer down, I think? If not, they
might be underneath the stone in the printshop.
If Wayne is no longer printing schedule cards, we could consider printing
our *own* schedule cards. Or printing them for him? There was some talk
about doing this... but it would be a pretty big undertaking! Too big to do
it this term, surely. Just food for thought.
I suspect Wayne has/had an inventory of these. Ask him for what you
need each term? It keeps the relationship going.
There might be a few hundred on top of the press shelves by the
windows.
If Wayne is out, printing these would be easier and safer (we need
thousands over the next few years) for LSC do on their press. They
wouldn't be perfectly square when cut down, but that isn't crucial.
Ask for the plate negative, if LSC doens't have good system for
keeping them?
Of course, both sides could be letterpress printed each term, but that
means letting them dry, and deciding how careful to be about
offsetting/backsetting ink ...
Which adds a day or two to the job.
yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
YiLFS,
Kristin
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> hi Alex,
>
> * Please ask rkw, then apo-printshop@mit.edu for help. rkw has done
> this job a number of times, and can laptop when you don't need her
> help.
>
> If no one else steps forward, please get back to me about being
> around in case you get stuck. I'm over busy right now.
>
> (There are lot's of things, that only I do for the print shop, and
> it's good to spread the mentoring around ; - )
>
> * The hard part of this job has always been getting the PVP, SVP, and
> BookEx Chair to give the needed info in time to print it. Ask
> early, and often, and get them to make scheduling a priority!
>
> * I'm pretty sure that only 500-600 were printed this Spring. Check
> the log? I also believe a lot of them were not picked up.
>
> * You might see if Wayne Johnson(?) at the Registrar's Office has any
> pre-printed schedule cards for you to print. if not, you can buy
> blank 3x5 index cards at University Stationers up near the MIT
> Museum on Massachusetts Ave.
>
> * Ideally they are printed 36-48 hours before you hand them out, so
> they dry.
>
> * Be nice to have them ready for Activities Midway. And find places
> other than Book Ex to hand them out. You could put a small box with
> a supply on the APO infinite corridor board. And or make posters
> with a small box attached.
>
> yiLFS -len
>
> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:39:00 -0400
> From: Alexandra Westbrook <alexwest@MIT.EDU>
> To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: Reg day run
>
> Hi Len,
>
> We are getting awfully close to reg day, but I would like try to make a
> reg
> day run happen this year. I've talked to a few people both APO and
> non-APO
> and they all appreciate the schedule cards. The only two undergrad
> operators
> right now are afarrell and I. We would both be interested in helping, but
> we
> only just qualified and had the whole summer away from MIT. I would much
> appreciate any advice you might have about making this happen.
>
> Is it still possible to make this happen? Do you have time to help? Maybe
> we
> can try to do it next week or next weekend sometime?
>
> YiLFS,
> -Alex
>
>
