Tag: letterpress (printing)

Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing using a printing press. A worker composes and locks movable type into the bed of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type.
In practice, letterpress also includes other forms of relief printing with printing presses, such as wood engravings, photo-etched zinc “cuts” (plates), and linoleum blocks, which can be used alongside metal type in a single operation, as well as stereotypes and electrotypes of type and blocks. With certain letterpress units it is also possible to join movable type with slugs cast using hot metal typesetting.

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Letterpress!

Looking for something different for your business card? Why not try letterpress printing? Letterpress printing actually presses the type and image into the paper resulting in a tactile impression you can feel. Is it affordable? It can be… letterpress shops such as The Mandate Press offer 250 single-ink-color letterpressed calling cards for $95.

Here is some inspiration…

01 Mei Yen Chua

Letterpress cards, Mei Yen Chua

02 Shyama Golden

Letterpress cards, Shyama Golden

03 The Highbrow Men’s Grooming Lounge

Letterpress cards, The Highbrow Men's Grooming Lounge

04 I Am Tiago

Letterpress cards, I am Tiago

05 Culinary Culture

Letterpress cards, Culinary Culture

06 Figments

Letterpress cards, Figments

07 Good Apples

Letterpress cards, Good Apples

08 My Old Red Hat

Letterpress cards, My Old Red Hat

09 Whitney Shaw

Letterpress cards, Whitney Shaw

10 BaristaLab

Letterpress cards, BaristaLab

 

Courtesy DesignTutorials4U

 

 

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Sanctuary screen printing in Austin

South Side Sanctuary El CaminoIn a warehouse in South Austin, the talented artists of South Side Sanctuary toil away on their computers and at their presses creating fashion that comments on art, music and fashion itself. Leaders Jon Pattillo and Jed Taylor do this for fun, cranking out three to five thousand t-shirts per month of their own design. But their designs are anything but mass-produced. Services also include custom designed screen-printed t-shirts, letter press-printed posters and business cards, banners, murals, and stickers. The duo started out creating merch for a record label and its touring bands. Today the company is housed in a 5,000 square foot location on South Congress Avenue. In addition to the three screen printing presses, SSS operates a 1947 Kluge open-face letterpress.

During this past year’s SXSW festival, the SSS crew could be seen rolling around town in their super-rad 1979 El Camino “delivery vehicle” equipped with a working screenprinting press in the truck bed.