[6456] in APO Printshop
Wedding Invitation Orders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Sun Jan 1 22:08:10 2012
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 22:08:06 -0500 (EST)
From: tower@alum.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: Andrew Farrell <afarrell@mit.edu>, Jen Selby <jenselby@gmail.com>,
Nick Martin <nim@nimlabs.org>
CC: apo-printshop@mit.edu
Reply-To: tower@alum.mit.edu
Jen, Nick, Andrew:
The Student Center is closed until 7am Tuesday Jan 3rd.
I hope you can get together before Nick leaves, and definitely before
Jen leaves.
If I can be helpful, Andrew can try zlocate-ing me on Athena, or try
calling me at +1-617-623-7739.
There is some chance, I'll be in the Silkscreen room, when your meeting
happens.
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Hi all,
Here are some pointers about taking an order for wedding invites.
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Press Shop Resources
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I believe catthu is the only press op who is an AX active who has done a
set of wedding invitations. Kristen among many other alums have done
sets as well.
The beige archive box (about a foot on each side) has samples of most of
the wedding invite sets done in the shop. The box is not well
organized, and a bit mixed up. All press ops should know where the
archive is.
There is a commercial sample album. It's above the light switch, on the
top shelf, right next to the wall. Good for ideas. Matching fonts and
paper are a long shot.
There is a book on etiquette, which includes that author's idea of what
should be done with wedding invitations. It's on the brown shelves to
one's right on the yellow wall.
There is also a looseleaf with some of the archived jobs in it, on the
top shelf of those brown shelves. It has a few invite sets in it. I
believe the cover is tan/beige.
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What a Wedding Set Might Consist Of
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In this case, the set might have up to twelve separate pieces:
Wed Invite + Wed Mailing Envelope + Wed Reply + Wed Reply Envelope
Rec1 Invite + Rec1 Mailing Envelope + Rec1 Reply + Rec1 Reply Envelope
Rec2 Invite + Rec2 Mailing Envelope + Rec2 Reply + Rec2 Reply Envelope
But anyone into cost savings would just do one Mailing + one Reply
Envelope for a total of eight pieces. Which might mean 200 - 500 of
each envelope.
The less complicated the job, the quicker it can be done.
Mailing Envelopes usually have the Bride's Family or Bride's address
both for the return address on the mailing envelope, and the To address
on the reply envelope.
Alex or her designee might have to order more cards (panel or plain) or
envelopes, if the set Jen and Nick wants needs more than 225 of any
particular size/color. We generally order paper from
http://www.paperworks.com/
and it can take up to two weeks. It's possible to call them,
and pick up an order that day or the next day for cash. AX has to deal
through the MIT Purchasing system, which has it's delays.
A client can supply their own paper.
If a client wants to use an ink color the Shop doesn't have, they pay the
cost of the whole tube or can. This could run up to $40.00/color.
Questions welcome to
apo-printshop@mit.edu
yiLFS -len
