Yes, the handwriting would look very nice. Perhaps a way to make them more "professional" would be to purchase a small laminator and laminate the cards. Good luck! Deborah Dodge Winton Administrative Assistant Indian Arts Research Center School of American Research www.sarweb.org >>> Ross Weeks <[log in to unmask]> 01/03/01 02:16PM >>> Why not use nice handwriting anyway, and forget the typewriting. It's so impersonal. Ross Weeks Jr. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lake Superior Railroad Museum" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:42 AM > Good morning! I have a question about museum membership. We do not have a > membership secretary, so membership duties are handled by our office > manager. Because of this, our memberships go from January 1-December 31, > with some exceptions case by case. Currently, she has to put business-card > sized membership cards into her typewriter and individually fill each one > out with the member's name, expiration date, and membership category. The > membership cards are basically business cards with our logo and a few lines > to write or type information on. As you can imagine, this is time consuming, > frustrating, and impractical in many ways. We would very much like a > different method of doing this. We looked into getting sheets of business > cards that would be filled out on the computer, but if we get a new member > in, say, June, filling out one card on the computer would mean wasting the > other 9 cards on the sheet. Once one card is torn off, the sheet cannot be > fed through the printer. I hope that I have explained this in an > understandable fashion. If anybody has a membership system that they are > happy with, I would greatly appreciate your input. Thank you! > Alissa Acker > Curator of Education > Lake Superior Railroad Museum > ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).