Comments on: Bingo, A Meat Raffle And Letterpress http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/bingo-a-meat-raffle-and-letterpress/ Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anna http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/bingo-a-meat-raffle-and-letterpress/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Anna Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:05:31 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1145#comment-926 holy crap I love those patterns. I don't know much about the process of letterpress. Not really able to follow this comment convo. Maybe one day.... hmmm holy crap I love those patterns. I don’t know much about the process of letterpress. Not really able to follow this comment convo. Maybe one day…. hmmm

]]> By: StudioOnFire http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/bingo-a-meat-raffle-and-letterpress/comment-page-1/#comment-897 StudioOnFire Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:28:12 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1145#comment-897 BFE! Hey Minnesota ain't BFE. And if you can get some bacon with your beer, well that's just perfect. For smaller runs, envelopes are much more cost effective to run as pre-made rather than printing a flat sheet and converting. Since this invite was a smaller run, it doesn't make sense to convert. Just the make ready an envelope converter requires for spoilage is 700-1000. That's a lot of waste on a job that only needs 500 envelopes. We would have had to run three times the number of sheets to do it that way and hit client quantity. BFE! Hey Minnesota ain’t BFE. And if you can get some bacon with your beer, well that’s just perfect.

For smaller runs, envelopes are much more cost effective to run as pre-made rather than printing a flat sheet and converting. Since this invite was a smaller run, it doesn’t make sense to convert. Just the make ready an envelope converter requires for spoilage is 700-1000. That’s a lot of waste on a job that only needs 500 envelopes. We would have had to run three times the number of sheets to do it that way and hit client quantity.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/bingo-a-meat-raffle-and-letterpress/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Jennifer Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:42:57 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1145#comment-894 meat raffle!?!?! must be some BFE boredom thing. Good work and solution to the envelop. I think I would have had the envelop printed and then cut and glued versus pre-made. meat raffle!?!?! must be some BFE boredom thing.

Good work and solution to the envelop. I think I would have had the envelop printed and then cut and glued versus pre-made.

]]> By: StudioOnFire http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/bingo-a-meat-raffle-and-letterpress/comment-page-1/#comment-886 StudioOnFire Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:39:11 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1145#comment-886 We have a little bit of plate overhanging the envelope where it bleeds and a little ink does get on the typman. We've not found that to be a bother, on darker stocks. But on lighter stocks, sometimes after we make ready the form, we will trim the polymer plate to the exact edge of the envelope. Another thing that can work is to run a frisket, but that is a whole lot more work than it's worth. I go there as a last resort. We have a little bit of plate overhanging the envelope where it bleeds and a little ink does get on the typman. We’ve not found that to be a bother, on darker stocks. But on lighter stocks, sometimes after we make ready the form, we will trim the polymer plate to the exact edge of the envelope. Another thing that can work is to run a frisket, but that is a whole lot more work than it’s worth. I go there as a last resort.

]]> By: Brad http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/04/bingo-a-meat-raffle-and-letterpress/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Brad Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:59 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1145#comment-884 I'm curious as to how you bled the printing off of the envelope flap. Any printing over the flap edge would end up on the tympan and then offset on the next envelope printed, right? What's your trick? I’m curious as to how you bled the printing off of the envelope flap. Any printing over the flap edge would end up on the tympan and then offset on the next envelope printed, right? What’s your trick?

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