Teaching The Trade

"I've got a rep in the [local IPMA] chapter as a scrounge," he says with a laugh. "If somebody's getting rid of something, I'll take it—ink, film, anything."

The scrounging has paid off, and added to some friendly politicking with the warden's secretary, Ruprecht has landed his classroom two Macintosh G4s, two A.B.Dick 8820s, a Hamada 700 and a small arsenal of scanning and bindery equipment.