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.

Photos by Gritchelle

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

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Photos by Gritchelle

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

Photos by Gritchelle

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

Designed by Kristin Allen for Ashley Grant Interiors, these thick two-sided cards are printed on separate 300g sheets, then duplexed after printing so that the impressions on the front and back don’t affect each other. Printing front and back on a 600g sheet is always an option too, but if you want 100% crisp and clean impressions, a duplexed card is the way to go.

PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White duplexed from 300g sheets
INK Pantone 400U, 402U, 7562U
EDGE PAINT Antique Gold

Photos by Gritchelle

Two-sided business cards for fellow Portlander, Emily Fabriconi of Empress Brow & Beauty.

PAPER 300g Keaykolour Pastel Pink
INK Black

Photos by Gritchelle

Simple but effective! These are two-sided cards on thick cotton paper — we’d show you the back but the client wants their details secret. Use your imagination.

PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Black
EDGE PAINT Black

Photos by Gritchelle