Letterpress printed QR codes can and do work when letterpress printed, as can be seen here on the business cards we recently printed for Tim Brook at BeApt.
The cards are printed black over a blind deboss onto 540gsm Colorplan.
Archive for the ‘Business Cards’ Category
Deboss & Letterpress QR Code
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January 27th, 2012
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 540gsm board, black, business card, colorplan, cotton paper, debossed, heidelberg, ink, letterpress, paper, printing, white |
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Ayelike Business Cards
Printing a large flat area of ink on uncoated stock can be tricky, but with careful setup on the press it can be done. We achieved a good solid black on these business cards for Neil McLean of Ayelike. Printing a solid black with a reversed out white logo was an alternative to a white hot foil.
Press: Heidelberg 10 x 15 platen
Stock: Colorplan 540gsm
Colours: 2
Dimensions: 85 x 55mm
Client: Ayelike
Designer: Neil Richards
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January 19th, 2012
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 540gsm board, black, black and white, business card, colorplan, duplex, full bleed, heidelberg, ink, letterpress, red |
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No Thank You
Søren Ragsdale came to us to create and print this simple card.
Here’s Søren’s brief:
“I’d like to order a set of business cards that just say “No Thank You” in a clean, serifed script. I’ve just moved to London where there are a ton of people trying to hand me flyers. I’d like to have something to hand back to them.”
I wonder if the people who receive them keep them or just throw them away? Either way, what a great idea!
Letterpress printed black 1/0 on Cranes Crest 365gsm, 100% cotton. Dimensions: 85 x 55mm.
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January 17th, 2012
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Ephemera
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, black and white, business card, cotton paper, cranes crest, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, typography |
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BrainUp Business Cards
Some rather special letterpress business cards for Romanian company Brain Up. Printed 3 colours both sides on a hefty 700gsm Colorplan and finished off with vibrant green edges.
The stock allowed a deep impression on both sides without too much show through on the opposite face. The original plan was to use a triplex stock, white/green/white, but edge painting ultimately has a powerful presence.
Print Specs:
Colorplan 700gsm, 3 colours both sides, green edge paint, letterpress printed on a Heidelberg platen.
Posted:
January 17th, 2012
| Category: Business Cards, edge painting
Tags: 700gsm, business card, colorplan, edge painting, heidelberg, letterpress |
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How small can you go?
We are often asked what’s the smallest point size letterpress can print. Well hopefully this will give you a good idea of how small we can go.
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January 13th, 2012
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques, typography
Tags: colorplan, letterpress, printing, typography |
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Cranes / Fresco Duplex
Hot off the press are these striking business cards for WHP Creative. The cards are a Cranes Crest / Accent Fresco 700gsm duplex, letterpress printed black and blind deboss on the Cranes, black ink on the Fresco. The black logo on the Fresco was originally intended to be a blind deboss but we advised a black ink to help lift it. We can edge paint a Duplex stock and these were painted in a vibrant aqua green.
Design © WHP Creative
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December 23rd, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, edge painting
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, black and white, business card, cotton paper, debossed, duplex, edge painted, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing |
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Christmas Twitter Treat
This TwitterTreat has now ended. The winner chosen at random from our Twitter followers who retweeted is @Burlisaurus
This years Christmas Twitter Treat is for some rather lovely business cards, letterpress printed onto Colorplan duplexed with recycled Greyboard. You even get to choose the colour of the Colorplan!
Print Specification
100 Business Cards
85 x 55mm (Landscape or portrait)
2 colour/1 side or 1 colour/2 sides
350gsm Recycled Greyboard / 350gsm Colorplan – your choice of colour!
Creating your artwork
The print area is 85 x 55mm. Artwork must be supplied as a print ready PDF or Illustrator .ai or .eps file. Please ensure all fonts are converted to outlines. Set your artwork file up as CMYK, not RGB and use spot colour from the uncoated Pantone colour books, no tints, shades or gradients.
The winner will be picked at random from our list of Twitter followers at 2pm Thursday, 22nd December 2011. The winner will be notified by DM on Twitter.
The winners artwork will be printed after the Christmas holidays.
How to enter:
Step 1
Follow us on Twitter!
Step 2
Retweet this tweet
Step 3
Cross your fingers!
SOME RULES
- The winner will be picked at random at 2pm Thursday, 22nd December 2011 from our list of Twitter followers who have retweeted as above.
- We reserve the right to showcase the winning business cards on Twitter, our website, blog and other websites for promotional purposes. We will include credits and links where applicable.
- This offer is open to anyone in any country.
- This offer cannot be used with any existing print orders.
- The winner must agree to these terms.
- Our decision is final.
- We reserve the right to withdraw this offer, change or amend the print specification or these rules.
Posted:
December 19th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Twitter Treats
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Genius Division Business Card
Red and white duplex is a striking combination as seen here in these business cards we printed for James Sheriff at Genius Division. Printing red ink to complement the red paper and then printing red ink over the red side rather than a blind deboss really help lift the pattern.
Letterpress printed onto 540gsm Duplex on a Heidelberg platen.
Posted:
September 6th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 540gsm board, debossed, duplex, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, red, white |
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Crowne Letterhead & Business Card
Letterpress stationery and business cards for Crowne Chauffeur Services, designed by Alan Haverty. The business cards are letterpress printed onto 540gsm Colorplan black & white duplex with a deboss crown logo on the black side. The letterheads were printed on matching 135gsm Colorplan in black and gold ink.
We paid special attention to the delicate type. Small fine fonts have a tendency to break up under the extreme pressure on the press but a careful balance between pressure, ink and packing on the press can help keep this to a minimum.
Posted:
September 2nd, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Stationery
Tags: black, duplex, gold ink, heidelberg, ink, paper, stationery |
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WRK™ Business Card
Mark Lindop, a brand identity designer from WRK™ has created a design that uses letterpress and edge painting to full effect. We printed the cards on a Heidelberg platen, silver ink onto a substantial 650mic recycled black board. Silver ink isn’t glossy like a foil but does have a rather sexy shimmer to it and stands out well on the black. Mark’s choice of colour for the edge painting is a vibrant contrast and certainly grabs your attention. We love it!
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September 1st, 2011
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 650mic, black, edge painting, heidelberg, ink, letterpress, silver |
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Helen Ray Business Card
We letterpress printed this foxy little business card on a hefty 1mm recycled board for bespoke hairdresser Helen Ray. The thick board allows a fab deep impression with very little show through onto the opposite side.
Posted:
July 14th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 1000mic, black, business card, impression, letterpress |
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The First 65 Business Cards
These business cards for new company The First 65 have qualities people crave with letterpress. Good design, quality board, deep impression with and without ink and an extra special finish. The ink was hand mixed to match the green paper and the logo was blind debossed on the reverse. As an extra special finish they were edge painted in a vibrant bright orange. The cards were printed on a Heidelberg platen onto 540gsm Duplex White over Green.
Click onto our Flickr pages to see the cards in production.
Posted:
July 13th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 540gsm board, business card, debossed, design, duplex, edge painted, green, heidelberg, letterpress |
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Press Pass Business Card
We love this press pass style business card designed Daniel Duhig Design for freelance journalist Cartlon Boyce. The detail of the design is accurate right down to a small photo of Carlton which is attached to the small blue square. We printed the cards on 1000mic recycled board in 2 colours on our Heidelberg letterpress printing presses. The surface of the recycled board is irregular with high and low points making each print unique.
Posted:
March 24th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 1000mic, black, blue, business card, heidelberg, letterpress, recycled |
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Cutter & Savage Business Cards
These charming business cards were designed by Cutter & Savage and printed black both sides on our Heidelberg platens. The paper is 425gsm 100% cotton and enhances the nostalgic feel to the cards.
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March 18th, 2011
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, business card, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm, vintage |
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Fontdeck Coasters and Business Cards
Letterpress coasters and business cards for Fontdeck designed by Clearleft. The 2 colour coasters are printed onto a quality 1200mic beermat board. This board is great for letterpress as the soft fibres take a lovely deep impression. The coasters were finished with die cut rounded corners. We also printed a 2 colour business card onto 425gsm 100% cotton paper.
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March 2nd, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Ephemera
Tags: 100% cotton paper, business card, coasters, cotton paper, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm |
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Edge Painted Business Cards
We recently worked with design outfit The Ubiquitous Manufacturing Company to print their business cards. The brief called for super thick board with edge painting and we talked at length about the effect they hoped to achieve. We sourced this 1000mic 100% recycled dark grey board – perfect!
The cards were printed on our Heidleberg platen presses in silver ink, 2 sides. The ‘Crown’ logo on the front was due to be a deboss but we printed a transparent white to help lift it.
Posted:
February 21st, 2011
| Category: Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 1000mic, black, business card, debossed, edge painting, heidelberg, letterpress, recycled, silver |
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De-tached business cards
De-tached produce bespoke music for media and needed a bespoke business card to compliment their new brand and website. Mark Sugdon created the business card and website for De-Tached and provided the print ready artwork. We talked in-depth about papers and finishes and letterpress printed on 540gsm Duplex black/white. Silver ink on black and black ink on white to produce a business card that looks as good as it feels.
Posted:
February 1st, 2011
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 540gsm board, black and white, business card, duplex, letterpress, paper, printing, white |
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Affordable letterpress business cards are here!
We are really excited to offer 250 personalised letterpress business cards for an amazing £59.
Choose from 14 stunning designs with exquisite typography and printed to perfection on Cranes Crest 100% cotton, a premium paper perfectly suited to letterpress.
The cards are printed in black ink as standard but alternative colours are available for an additional cost. The cards are presented in a hand made box – a perfect gift! Orders are now being taken for delivery in time for Christmas.
Browse the full range and order online now!
More photos on our Flickr pages
Posted:
October 31st, 2010
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 100% cotton paper, 356gsm, black and white, business card, cotton paper, cranes crest, ink, letterpress, paper, printing, typography, white |
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2 Colour + Deboss Business Cards
Lightbulb are a design consultancy with bright ideas looking for a print finish to give their business cards another dimension. The design was created for letterpress and the black and grey ink sinks deep into the 425gsm pure cotton paper. The focal point though is the debossed lightbulb, certain to draw attention when handed out. A deboss clearly shows the impression letterpress can make into the paper, leaving a beautiful tactile finish only possible with this amazing technique.
Posted:
October 26th, 2010
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black, cotton paper, debossed, grey, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, white |
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1985 Business Cards
We printed these 2 colour, double-sided business cards for London based art director Richard Monk of 1985®. A bit of a thank you really after an interview we took part in for the CCCCareer website.
Richard’s design is strong and bold typography in black and grey and has printed really well on the 540 white board.
The job was part of our unique #LetterpressLive tweeting sessions on Twitter, where we tweet each stage of the process as it happens and is an insight into blush°° and the letterpress process. If you missed the session you can catch up on our Flickr pages.
Posted:
October 20th, 2010
| Category: Business Cards
Tags: 540gsm board, black, black and white, business card, debossed, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, tweets, Twitter, typography, white |
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