Nice simple but bold hang tags and business cards for Quesada. The business card is thick 600g Lettra paper with black letterpress. For the tag, we printed gold shine foil on 350g Colorplan Mid Green and finished with a brass eyelet.
PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White, 350g Colorplan Mid Green
INK Black
FOIL Gold Shine
FINISHING Eyelet
Beautifully designed business cards by Sophia Studio. Honored to help execute the vision with white foil on Colorplan Stone paper for the front, off-black letterpress ink on Fluorescent White Lettra paper for the back.
White foil on colored paper is such a great choice when you want reversed text. Opaque white letterpress ink doesn’t tend to print crisply and it’s not totally opaque. And printing a color flood background with knocked out text can look uneven and can lead to scuffing. White foil prints crisply and has near 100% opacity.
This is one of the most ambitious projects we’ve ever taken on. In 2020, Pasxa Wines in Walla Wall asked us to produce labels for their first vintage for about 5000 bottles. Since then we’ve worked with them each year as their production has more than doubled and this past December we finished work on labels for their fourth vintage.
Each label goes has a total of seven (!!!) letterpress inks. We use soft and supple 100% cotton Somerset paper, a stock that’s designed and manufactured for fine art prints. After printing, we hand-apply an adhesive backing then die cut the press sheets. At the winery, the Pasxa folks place the labels on each bottle manually.
This year we expanded our custom adhesive capabilities to make the process faster and less expensive while increasing the adhesive strength. We’re not able to put our letterpress wine labels on rolls, but our new process makes application quite a bit less onerous than previous iterations of this job.
The first of two business cards we printed for clients of the incomparable designer Chad Makerson Micheal. This one’s kinda nuts: A duplexed card with three letterpress inks plus sliver foil on the front, three letterpress inks on the back, glued and die-cut. Super tight registration on the inks and foil all around.
PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 46
INK Black, PMS 2035U, PMS 2327U
FOIL Silver Shine
FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut
This next one for Sespe Creek is another duplexed card with three letterpress inks both front and back. Such an awesome level of detail in Chad’s designs — perfect for letterpress printing.
PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 50
INK Tinted White, PMS 3015U, PMS 2035U
FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut
At long last! We created a beautiful and compact swatch book showcasing all the ways we can bring your projects to life. The pack includes a 20-page booklet full of our cotton, Colorplan, Gmund, and museum board stocks with a range of print processes and finishing techniques, all smartly bound with a (removable) Chicago post. Want one? Get in touch and we’ll make it happen.
A few standout capabilities we’ve featured:
Blind letterpress vs. tinted-white letterpress
Tonal letterpress
Letterpress overprints
Letterpress halftones
Metallic letterpress on black paper
Metallic and satin foil stamping
White foil
Tonal foil
Holographic foil
Foil stamping over digital printing
Die cutting
Blind embossing
Foil + emboss
Letterpress labels
Hole drilling & eyelets
Embossed and duplexed business cards for Portland’s Wildwood House!
If you’re printing a two-sided business card and you don’t want to see the reverse of your embossed image on the back of the piece, we can duplex two sheets after embossing to hide the embossing. For this set, we embossed 350g Colorplan Pistachio, printed black letterpress on 300g Lettra Fluorescent White, glued the two together, and then die-cut to finish the card.
It’s also a good idea to die-cut an embossed & duplexed card rather than trim it on a standard guillotine cutter. That way the emboss doesn’t get mashed by the cutter clamp.
PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Pistachio & Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Black
FINISHING Die-cut
We’ve printed cards for the friendly folks at Empress a few times now. This time around, we helped develop a new design with artwork based on Emily’s tattoo, thick duplexed paper, and gold edge paint.
PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Candy Pink & Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Custom Green & Pink, Black
EDGE PAINT Gold
