Caryn Gutterman designed this business card for photographer Scott Regan. We are suckers for letterpress printing the unique, custom and out of the ordinary. And these business cards are no ordinary cards. If Scott Regan hands you a business card, you will KNOW he’s handed you a business card. The thick stock is 60pt blotter stock. It is a little more textured on one side than the other. The texture of this stock is deep – reminds us of the finish on an egg carton, kind of raw and porous in appearance. It takes some work to print a solid letterpress, even more work on this stock. It’s not a fine surface like cotton sheets, but it’s soft and takes a nice impression which makes it attractive for letterpress. The paper just drinks up the ink and leaves paper fuzz everywhere – guess that’s why it’s a blotter stock. But the result is really beautiful. There is an uneven nature to the way the ink lays on the heavy formation of the paper. We printed the gray ink first, then the tightly registered yellow logo. The card was trimmed and edge colored in a PMS matching yellow. We like the simple modern design combined with the raw material – people will hang onto this card for sure.
Ooooo so yummy good. I love the way you guys love the letterpress. My goal is to use letterpress like this one day.
your registration is unbelievable. [bowing to you here]
Innnnntersting paper there. I see a surperhero who’s home planet is the moon. lol
Awesome that you were able to keep so much of the texture while printing a color flood though. Did you kiss it and the ink soaked in, or is the paper texture just that deep?
The texture is that deep. A heavy impression is needed to get even inking on such textural stock. Such a fluffy stock actually gets much thinner with full ink coverage because the whole sheet is being compressed.