Can it really be a over year since we printed this! Another invitation from our archives showing the beautiful effect of printing with a tint.

Letterpress printed on 425gsm cotton paper.

Buiness cards letterpress printed really deep into the 540gsm Colorplan with hardly any evidence of an impression on the opposite side of the card.

Business cards designed by Steve Wright at Ello Mate! Letterpress printed on Colorplan 540gsm Pristine White.

To celebrate the 2012 Olympics Found and Charlotte Trounce collaborated to create this Olympic themed limited edition calender. We letterpress printed the A3 calender on our Heidelberg cylinder press onto 300gsm Somerset cotton paper in 2 colours. The hand drawn illustrations and typography transfer faithfully to letterpress. The prints are available to buy on the Found online store.

A striking combination of Colorplan Dark Grey / Fuchsia Duplexed to 540gsm. Letterpress printed silver ink and dark grey ink. Designed by Ed & Leah.

Debbie is passionate about paper, really passionate. With her background in the paper industry she knows a thing or two about paper. We got a call from Debbie while she was over in New York for the Stationery Show, “Can you print my business cards for when I return in a couple of days for PG Live in London?” How could we resist! The paper was chosen, the type set and colours picked in no time and the next day it was on the press.

The cards are printed with coral ink and finished off with matching edge colour. There was only one paper choice for a paper passionist – the awesome 600gsm Cranes Lettra Flourescent White.

Here’s another wedding invitation from our archives. Featuring hand drawn elements and a beautiful beautiful choice of colours. Letterpress printed on 425gsm cotton paper.

Designed by Aled Lewis.

You can often hear The Raconteurs blasting through the print room here at blush°° so you can imagine how thrilled we were when asked to print the invitation for the inaugural playing of Jack White’s Blunderbuss.

The invitations were letterpress printed on a Heidelberg platen onto 425gsm cotton paper.

Design by XL Recordings & Third Man Records

Business cards for Dragons Den’s Douglas Richards. Letterpress printed with silver ink onto 540gsm black Colorplan and finished with a striking light blue edge paint.

Looking through our archives we came across this beautiful wedding invitation and RSVP we printed for Delaine & Adam Coppack. An elegant use of typeface and colour. Letterpress printed 2 collours both sides on 300gsm cotton paper. Designed by Adam Coppack.

The third in the Assorted Types series is hot off the press and available to purchase from our online store!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Letterpress printing onto 425gsm cotton paper creates beautiful, tactile wedding stationery. Printed onto 425gsm 100% cotton paper. Design © Julia & Anthony Iredale.

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.