Well, today I got in touch, as the title says, with my inner mechanic. News flash: she's not very mechanical. Now, I did manage to get the little folding machine (thank you, local lawfirm who donated the used folder) to make the folds I wanted, after much experimentation and scrap paper. But I couldn't get our community newsletter to "feed" properly. They went in crooked; they went in triplicate or even more (jamming the machine so I would have to pull it apart to yank wads of newsletter away from the rollers); they went in straight and came out torn and wrinkled. So if any of you are on our community newsletter list, you will know what happened. If you are not on the list and would like to be... You already know all the news because I tell you about it here.
When the sheets did feed and fold properly, they got nested into one another, so that now (having made a batch of pumpkin muffins which indicate that my inner chef isn't doing so well either) I am un-nesting them and setting them in a postal tray for the sisters and Blanca (our volunteer, God bless her) to stuff with our Christmas cards. I will be out of town (singing!) when that gets done, and so I am trying to get the mailing ready for them before I leave.
I may have to print a few hundred extra copies just to be safe. But that means I would have to fold them....
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Sorry, I remember the "old" mimeograph machines but never used a folding machine.
By the way, on my blog today I posted a question about people's favorite liturgical music. I thought it a fitting way to observe today's feast.
Happy Feast of Saint Cecilia!
Lisa
http://fromwhereiwrite.blogspot.com
yeah the folding machine!!!!!! that thing is soooo noisey!!!! And lets not mention a pain as well!!!! You really have to use a certain stock in order for it work properly!!! my gradnparetns own a printing business and travel around to different states weekly selling coca-cola items and so forth!!! its really awesome what they do i sometimes go with them!!!! Now i travel around with religious siters dong the same(but kinda what you do) but only in the diocese of peoria!!!
obtw, the only reaosn why the newsletters came out that way is ebcause that machine is very sencitive!!!! If its a newsletter that has tons of pages in it, your better off doing it by hand, trust me!!!!!!!! it can only take like one papre at a time or 2 pages at a time. Always use a certain stock that is very felxible like computer paper, never ever use cardboard liek material, that will never work and it take forever and never come out the way you want it. I wacthed my grandparetns use the machine since i was little, like 6 or so and now i'm 18 and they still use that machine even though at times it collects dust!!!! my gradnparetns have the smae machine that is pictured on your blog!!!!!!!! if you have naymore questions or concerns about that machine, let me know!!!!!!
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