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

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

Photos by Gritchelle

I never get tired of tonal ink on Colorplan paper. This one's for Kelley of Barrett Ford Jewelry. We printed this little square business cards on 540g stock (not too thin, not too thick) with tonal green ink and gray ink, then finished them with gray edge paint.

PAPER 540g Colorplan Powder Green
INK Custom Pastel Green, Slate
EDGE PAINT Slate

Folded gift card holders and envelopes for the Parklife-tested-and-approved in-home massage app, Soothe.

PAPER 300g Fluorescent White
INK Black, blind deboss

ENVELOPE 135g Colorplan Ebony
INK Silver

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Simple one-color cards on thick 540g Colorplan paper for the Atlantic Beach restaurant, Pescara. Metallic letterpress inks show just a hint of shimmer, and unlike most inks, they're opaque so they look great on dark papers.

PAPER 540g Colorplan Imperial Blue
INK Matte Gold

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Intricate yet simple two-sided client-designed invites for their Victoria, Australia wedding.

PAPER 350g Colorplan Cool Blue
INK Pantone 709 custom mix