From: Bill Brand (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 13:45:25 PDT
JK is Meritex Inc.
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>I was wondering that too. The funky J-K models (possessed by FAF and
>SFAI among others) were long said to be manufactured by a guy named
>Jako (sp?) who, it was said, lived in Oakland (like at SFAI they
>used to say, "I guess we need to call Jako.." whenever the thing was
>being weird.) The deal is... I got the impression that like many of
>his apparent ilk, this Jako was kind of hard to track/nail down most
>of the time and I get the sense that mayve he was no longer around
>(as in no longer available/in the biz). Does anyone know the
>whereabouts of Jako??
>
>At a screening q&a once at Cinematheque, circa 1999, Phil Solomon
>praised Jako: "He makes optical printers and surfboards...". I get
>the sense he (Jako) may have been some kind of long-haired Romanian
>surfer/hippy dude living in Oakland...
>
>Steve Polta
>
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>--- On Tue, 8/5/08, k. a.r. <email suppressed> wrote:
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>> From: k. a.r. <email suppressed>
>> Subject: So where can I buy a optical printer???????
>> To: email suppressed
>> Date: Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 12:48 PM
>> Yeah, that should be my new question.....
>> I have a bolex.
>> need everything else..... ;)
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