[6696] in APO Printshop
Re: Letterpress question - NOW: Swamp Press & Monotype cast fonts.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Fri Jul 12 15:23:30 2013
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:23:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
cc: APO Press <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAPkrFhfNKu_aGKnosi1x=qdrzRpdhEo-zyRayv_aaGjYo6SQSA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Benazeer,
If anyone wants to buy Monotype cast fonts and donate them to the
Shop, that would be awesome.
I hadn't heard of Swamp Press, but there are many people who cast and
sell type on old Monotypes, Intertypes, etc. casters. Including a few
inside 495. The type is on a softer alloy, than foundry type - which
means it wears out sooner. Matter less for the APO Letterpress
Shop as relatively few impressions are done on a face.
The font family we have with the most wear is Garamond. I suspect the
Hotel used the font a lot.
All but the News Gothic Condensed in the APO Letterpress Shop (except
the 10 pt) was cast on Monotype (I believe) casters.
yiLFS -len
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:37:11 -0400
From: Benazeer Noorani <benazeer@gmail.com>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: APO Press <apo-printshop@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Letterpress question
Does everyone know about Swamp Press? The owner has a monotype supercaster
and hundreds of matrices. His type catalog is impressive, to say the least,
and he does *not *charge hundreds of dollars per font. He charges $36 for
1000 pieces of type in 12pt (more for larger type, less for smaller type,
because obviously the cost of metal is proportional to font size). 1000
pieces isn't sufficient for, say, printing a *book*, but it's certainly
enough for business cards and invitations.
His price list is here:
http://www.swamppress.com/Price_Schemes42010.pdfand his type catalog
is here:
http://www.swamppress.com/Swamp%20Type%20Cat%2012-10.pdf. I'm purchasing
several fonts for him to use in the Vandercook at the Boston Paper
Collective, and spending far less than $100 for several full fonts
including all the characters that take accent marks in French and Spanish.
YiLFS
Benazeer
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu>wrote:
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 20:44:13 +0000
> From: Rossana Chung <crossana@MIT.EDU>
>
> Hello, APO,
>
> I was wondering how much it would cost to print 100 letterpress
> business cards in 1 or 2 colors of ink? What kind of papers do you
> have? Is this service limited to only MIT community?
>
> Thanks,
> Rossana
>
> Hi Rossana,
>
> * Apology for no one getting back to you sooner. The Press Shop
> Manager is away from the Internet right now.
>
> * When do you need these by?
>
> * You might get them a bit sooner, if you only order one color.
> (It's four to six hours of labor per color to do this. And you have
> to wait 24 hours for each color to dry before doing the next.)
>
> * Printing is done on a volunteer basis as a community service. One
> of the Press Operators has to agree to take the job on. None have
> so far, but this email might get one of them to contact you.
>
> We only print for the MIT Community and for 501(c)3 non-profit
> organizations.
>
> * The shop is limited in what typefaces and pictures it has.
> It's all hard metal type.
>
> It's wise for you and the Press Op to meet in the Shop, so you can
> see what is possible.
>
> It's possible to get custom pictures made, but this would add a lot
> of time to getting your cards printed. With cost perhaps in the
> $25.00 to $100.00 range.
>
> It's also possible to buy new typefaces. But you would have to pay
> for them, and it's hundreds of dollars and significant time to order
> them.
>
> * The Shop has some old business card stock. It's a bit faded. You
> have to look through it and see if any of it is acceptable to you.
>
> The cost of this card stock is currently $2.00/100 cards.
>
> If not, you can buy business card stock at
>
> University Stationary. 311 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA 02139
>
> and get it to the Press Operator.
>
> * We currently charge $5.00 per color
> (or numbering or perforation or scoring - but these don't matter to
> you)
> plus $0.20/100.
>
> So the charge beyond the cost of paper for your 100 cards would be
> $5.20 per color.
>
> best -len
>
