The esteemed fellows at Wilderness in Portland sent us an unusually simple business card for letterpress printing. Rather than load up the card with four telephone numbers, an email, a fax, a twitter, etc - they all simply share the same card. A nice solution for keeping cost down too. Wilderness is the new design [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged 13 x 18, 220lb, business card, color, cotton, dark, DDC, Draplin, Field Notes, flood, Heidelberg, Letterpress, letterpress services, lettra, Nakamoto, OR, pearl, Phemister, portland, printer, printing, solid, stock, typography, white, Wilderness
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This is a CD package we designed and letterpress printed for Erik Brandt with illustrations by Andy DeVore. He put this CD together after spending a year teaching in Hungary. The structure houses both a fold up lyric sheet and a CD. We printed the packaging with two ink colors on 140lb French Poptone. The [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Design, Letterpress
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Also tagged 140lb, andy devore, CD, compact, cut, Design, die, diecut, dieline, disc, disk, erik brandt, french, Letterpress, minneapolis
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This is part two showing the production of business cards on our Heidelberg Windmill. Be sure and see Part 1 showing the finished cards.
We start with a high resolution film negative. The negative is used to expose the plastic plates. The plates are attached to an aluminum base and placed into the press. The press [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress, Printing Tips and Tricks
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Also tagged 10 x 15, 10x15, blind, business cards, card, fabien barrel, france, fred dauzat, french, graphic exchange, heavy, Heidelberg, impression, ink, Letterpress, letterpress services, limited press, minneapolis, minnesota, paper, press room, printer, printing, so goods, stock, thick
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Here’s a tip for getting some letterpress roller coasting love. We take something into our press room from the pitchers mound - a rosin bag. You can get them at your local sporting goods store and they should cost only a few dollars. A rosin bag will change your life when printing on a Heidelberg [...]
Vintage machines live or die depending on our care of their lubrication needs. Certain areas on the Heidelberg Windmill presses have lots small oil points - like the gripper head and the paper feed. It is all to easy to over oil and end up with drips oozing everywhere, not cool when you are trying [...]
By StudioOnFire
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Posted in Letterpress
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Also tagged 10 x 15, 10x15, 13 x 18, 13x18, Heidelberg, Letterpress, lube, lubrication, oil, oiling, precision, press, tips
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