Comments on: Flooding Letterpress Ink http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/05/flooding-letterpress-ink/ Studio On Fire // Design & Letterpress Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:54:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick Hall http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/05/flooding-letterpress-ink/comment-page-1/#comment-2837 Patrick Hall Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:14:23 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1330#comment-2837 Wow!! This is what I to aspire to! I'm a newbie to letterpress and just printed an x-mas card (kluge 12x don't hold it against me) and was dealing with 'salty' printing solid areas when I came on your solid areas of color disclaimer.( My background is in foil-stamping where salty is a bad word). thank you!! I've seen samples your shops' work it is primo! Wow!! This is what I to aspire to! I’m a newbie to letterpress and just printed an x-mas card (kluge 12x don’t hold it against me) and was dealing with ‘salty’ printing solid areas when I came on your solid areas of color disclaimer.( My background is in foil-stamping where salty is a bad word). thank you!! I’ve seen samples your shops’ work it is primo!

]]> By: ken charlson http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/05/flooding-letterpress-ink/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 ken charlson Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:49:40 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1330#comment-1151 Wow! The flood looks great on these pieces! We're letterpress printers too, and are always wary of doing floods or colorblocks in designs we get. We do the same thing as you with having a "key" piece that acts as a guide or target for reference throughout the run. Maintaining a consistent opacity throughout the run is always a challenge... Two questions... 1) did you get this level of opaque coverage on one pass through the press... and do you ever have issues with the piece sticking to the form when using this much ink? Any tricks? We print on a Heidelberg windmill which I think you guys also use... 2) The front side looks like there's some impression in the design, yet no "matting" of the paper fibers on the back flooded side, where the impression from the front side would be tempted to push through during printing. At first I thought you guys did a laminate of two pieces, front and back, but it sounds like you didn't. Is it just your paper choice, and careful application of "just the right amount" of impression that got you looking this good here? Or do you have any other tricks you'd care to share? Speaking of laminating... Do you guys ever do post printing laminating of sheets together? Do you have any glue / laminating solutions that you like? We've been curious about this kind of thing, but haven't had to do it thus far.... love the blog, btw! big fans! Your stuff looks great. Thanks, Ken Wow! The flood looks great on these pieces!
We’re letterpress printers too, and are always wary of doing floods or colorblocks in designs we get. We do the same thing as you with having a “key” piece that acts as a guide or target for reference throughout the run. Maintaining a consistent opacity throughout the run is always a challenge…

Two questions…
1) did you get this level of opaque coverage on one pass through the press… and do you ever have issues with the piece sticking to the form when using this much ink? Any tricks? We print on a Heidelberg windmill which I think you guys also use…

2) The front side looks like there’s some impression in the design, yet no “matting” of the paper fibers on the back flooded side, where the impression from the front side would be tempted to push through during printing. At first I thought you guys did a laminate of two pieces, front and back, but it sounds like you didn’t. Is it just your paper choice, and careful application of “just the right amount” of impression that got you looking this good here? Or do you have any other tricks you’d care to share?

Speaking of laminating… Do you guys ever do post printing laminating of sheets together? Do you have any glue / laminating solutions that you like? We’ve been curious about this kind of thing, but haven’t had to do it thus far….

love the blog, btw! big fans! Your stuff looks great.

Thanks,

Ken

]]> By: StudioOnFire http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/05/flooding-letterpress-ink/comment-page-1/#comment-978 StudioOnFire Mon, 18 May 2009 19:41:36 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1330#comment-978 I should clarify that you don't get impression on the text because the whole side of the card is being pressed and bleeds off the edges. There is certainly pressure being applied to the sheet, and it will iron out any impression that may be on the front side of the card, so we always print the flood first. I should clarify that you don’t get impression on the text because the whole side of the card is being pressed and bleeds off the edges. There is certainly pressure being applied to the sheet, and it will iron out any impression that may be on the front side of the card, so we always print the flood first.

]]> By: Brandi Stanley http://www.beastpieces.com/2009/05/flooding-letterpress-ink/comment-page-1/#comment-977 Brandi Stanley Mon, 18 May 2009 19:09:42 +0000 http://www.beastpieces.com/?p=1330#comment-977 Thanks for this post. I was actually wondering today if this was possible, and am actually really please to know that the flood doesn't cause an impression, as I'd like to print something with an impression on only one side. So fantastic, and so informative. Love this blog. Thanks for giving designers an insight into letterpress printing. Thanks for this post. I was actually wondering today if this was possible, and am actually really please to know that the flood doesn’t cause an impression, as I’d like to print something with an impression on only one side. So fantastic, and so informative.

Love this blog. Thanks for giving designers an insight into letterpress printing.

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