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------------------   Creating a Watchmaker business card   -------------------
 Albert Dvornik   -----------------------------------------   October 10 1994
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These simple instructions will enable you to become a happy owner of 10
(ten) Watchmaker business cards.  (If you are not a Watchmaker, you lose.)

 1. Get some preprinted Watchmaker business card stock from the Zone.
    (ask Mark Curby if you can't find any.)

 2. Type "add watchmaker", then "business-card".

 3. Enter your name, a title (either "Watchmaker" or something more
    nonconformist), and your E-mail address.

    Choose a printer to print the cards on.
    (Use printers other than LaserJet4mx's at your own risk.)

    WARNING: "nil" uses the bottom tray for printing documents;
      therefore there's a high chance that someone will print on your
      stock before you do.  Use another printer or wait till 5am.

 4. Make sure the top tray of the printer has paper in it.

 5. Take a sheet of card stock face-up, bottom of the page toward you,
    and put it in the envelope feeder on top of the bottom tray.
    (The business card will be printed from the bottom tray to avoid
    other users accidentally using your card stock.)

 6. Press RETURN or ENTER or whatever your keyboard calls it.

 7. You should have a printed sheet of cards coming out of the printer
    now.  Get a paper cutter from Mark Curby and cut it.

    Suggested cutting procedure:
    Cut the sheet into five horizontal strips of two cards.  Remove
    the top margin, but *not* the bottom margin.  Then, stack the
    strips so that the bottom strip shows the crop marks on the bottom
    margin.  Holding the cards in place, remove right margins of the
    stack; don't press too hard-- it's better to do it in several
    passes instead or the cards will move and get cut crooked.  Use
    the same procedure to remove left margins and divide the strips in
    two.  Finally, remove the bottom margin by using one of the other
    cards as a measure for the height of the bottom cards.  Voila!

 8. Spread your cards around.  Give one to Mark, he keeps a collection. =)

Let me (bert@mit.edu) know if you run into trouble with this.
Fancier designs will need some hand-hacking of PostScript code...

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