Paper Meets Press - Letterpress Company

Capsular

These 3/3 business cards were printed on 179 lb. Crane’s Crest kid Finish, and they utilize overprinting perfectly. The front of these cards look as if they have 4 colors, but the greenish shade was created by overprinting the tan and the blue. Overprinting is an easy way to squeeze in an additional color/shade without adding another prinitng plate.

Reason Modern

These cards were designed to be a little smaller than usual. The measure in at 1.5″ x 3″ and were printed and embossed on 140lb. French Sweet Tooth. It ended up being a very nice, sturdy paper for the embossed design.

Design by: Ed Nacional for Reason Modern

Engine Room

Duplexed black matte board to Colorplan, printed and then diecut. These 4/1 cards were a good bit of work, but fun work! It is not easy to letterpress print color onto black paper, but after a few runs through the press we were able to get them just right. After all the printing was finished, the cards were die cut so they would have a tiny rounded corner.

Magaro Stationery

This stationery set mixed both letterpress printing and embossing. The letterpress parts are pushed into the paper using a rich brown ink, and the blind embossed seal is raised above. We used the same embossing die for both the notecards and envelopes.
The notecards were printed on French Paper’s 140lb. Muscletone Whip Cream and the envelopes were printed on French Paper’s Construction Steel Blue.