[6476] in APO Printshop
Re: how should we fund the chapter? - do more printing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Fri Jan 20 03:29:33 2012
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:29:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Ellen Kranzer <ccrazy@MIT.EDU>
To: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
cc: Rachel Keeler <rhkeeler@mit.edu>, apo-discuss@mit.edu,
apo-printshop@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1201192313480.7614@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
The discussion on generating increased income from the press shop was
about raising prices and more agressively soliciting business from the
rest of campus.
Even if we had a lot more qualified press ops, the pressshop really can't
be turned into a major income generator in large part because our costs
are too high for us to keep the costs below what you can get similar
printing jobs done for using other technologies. For business cards, at
our current pricing we're about on par with or a little cheaper than
commericial printing for one color cards, but with commercial printing you
can get a lot more flexibility and for not too much more full four-color
process printing. The situation for pricing in simple invites is similar.
While there are some people out there who will pay a premium for letter
press printing, that is not a lot of people on campus.
There's also a limit on how many jobs we can do, even with more trained
press ops there are just so many hours in the day that the press can be
operated. It's not safe to be printing at odd hours and on not enough
sleep.
-- Ellen
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Leonard H Tower Jr. wrote:
> When is the next CAPs meeting to discuss this?
>
> There are some things to be said about using the printshop to raise
> income for the Chapter, but I like to hear from press operators who
> are students or very recent alums first.
>
> I
> Cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu
>
> yiLFS -len http://www.art.net/~tower/
>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:21:00 -0500
> From: Rachel Keeler <rhkeeler@MIT.EDU>
> To: apo-discuss <apo-discuss@mit.edu>
> Subject: how should we fund the chapter?
>
> Hi APO!
>
> This is the first email spawned by today's session of CAPS.
>
> As a background for those of you who don't know, for years a big source of
> money for the chapter has been working at Reg Day (it made up somewhere
> around 1/3 of our budget), and with registration finally moving online,
> we're losing that source of income. We brainstormed a list of ways to raise
> money and now we want to talk about them. Is there an idea you really like?
> Is there something not on the list you want to add? Is there something you
> think is a *bad* idea?
>
> Please speak up, even if it's only to say "I like them all!" or "Ooooooh,
> silkscreening!"
>
> 1. Ramp up the printshop
> 2. Ramp up silkscreening, especially shirts that appeal to the MIT
> community rather than specifically APO
> 3. take a larger percent of BookEx
> 4. bake sale
> 5. actively solicit alumni donations (or senior gifts)
> 6. make Steak Fry larger/more awesome -- increase starting price at the
> auction -- possibly sell tickets
>
> The need to zero out debtlists was also mentioned, but seems to be more a
> one-time thing than a sustainable source of funding.
>
> YiLFS,
> Rachel
>
>
