These striking business cards designed by graphic designer Andy Cooke are an excellent example of metallic hot foil and letterpress print techniques. Printing floods of ink or foil can cause us to take a sharp intake of breath but we knew we had to try it for this job. Andy’s design called for a solid flood of metallic foil on one side with extremely fine hot foil and letterpress print on the reverse of the 700gsm Colorplan.
Posted:
June 18th, 2020
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Hot Foil
Tags: 3 Passes, bronze, Business Cards, colorplan, heidelberg, Hot Foil, ink, letterpress, metallic |
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Copper foil and black letterpress ink on Colorplan Imperial Blue over Pale Grey duplex for life coach Jessie Rose.
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June 16th, 2020
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Duplex, Hot Foil
Tags: Business Cards, Duplex, Hot Foil, letterpress |
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A vodka label designed by United Creatives to echo the sumptuous art deco interior of the Beaufort Bar at the Savoy Hotel, London.
A single metallic red foil stamped onto black label stock with a subtle emboss to pick out elements of the design and add tactility.
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June 10th, 2020
| Category: 3 Passes, die cutting, Embossing, Hot Foil, Product Packaging
Tags: Hot Foil, labels, letterpress, Product Packaging, united creatives |
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Striking business cards for MyPanacea. Strong geometric logos utilising inks and hot foils. The foiled logo contrasts the dark purple perfectly, sharp and stylish.
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June 8th, 2020
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Hot Foil, Hot off the press
Tags: 540gsm board, business card, Business Cards, colorplan, debossed, Hot Foil, ink, letterpress |
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We love these pyramid save the dates we recently printed for Claire and Martyn. Printed with a striking metallic bronze hot foil, a letterpress ink and finished with a die cut and crease. These free standing cards are sure to announce the big day in style!
Posted:
February 16th, 2017
| Category: 3 Passes, Wedding Stationery
Tags: 3 Passes, bronze, colorplan, die cutting, Hot Foil, letterpress, Wedding Stationery |
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Styling opticians Jones and Co. of Manchester came to Blush to print their rather stylish business cards. The cards are printed with two hot foils over letterpress printed ink on a Colorplan Citrine and Ebony duplex.
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November 21st, 2016
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Duplex
Tags: 540gsm board, business card, Duplex, Hot Foil, letterpress |
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We love the idea of these beautiful wedding invites we printed for Charlotte and George. Great concept, tasteful typography letterpress printed with two inks on a 300gsm cotton stock.
Posted:
October 4th, 2016
| Category: 3 Passes
Tags: 100% cotton paper, 3 Passes, 300gsm, cotton paper, letterpress, Typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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Super stylish cards created for Feix & Merlin. These cards utilise a blind debossing and ink on one side of a 540gsm Colorplan Smoke, with an ink the other. We love the patterned optical illusion effect across the back, the debossed lines make for a great tactile feel for these cards.
Posted:
September 23rd, 2016
| Category: 3 Passes, Blind Deboss, Business Cards, Edge Painting
Tags: 3 Passes, 540gsm board, Business Cards, colorplan, debossed, Edge Painting, grey, ink, letterpress, Typography |
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These business cards we produced for The Minster School utilise metallic and pigment foils both sides of a weighty 700gsm Colorplan Vermillion. How’s that for classy?
Posted:
August 26th, 2016
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Hot Foil, Hot off the press, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: colorplan, colorplan vermillion, foil, foiling, Hot Foil, Metallic Foil |
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Some lovely comments from Claire and Terence regarding their Save the Dates. Three colour letterpress print on 700gsm Colorplan, finished off with edge colour. We really appreciate the feedback!
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April 27th, 2016
| Category: 3 Passes, Edge Painting, Letterpress Stationery, Wedding Stationery
Tags: 3 Passes, colorplan, letterpress, Wedding Stationery |
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Enhanse your deboss with a transparent ink. A great way to bring out a more subtle deboss.
Wedding Photographer Joe Stenson’s card utilises a transparent debossing with an ink either side on the ever-impressive Colorplan Pristine White. Simple, tactile and effective.
Posted:
August 19th, 2015
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Hot off the press
Tags: 540gsm, blind debossing, colorplan, debossing, pristine white, transparent, transparent ink |
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Check out these stylish cards designed by Superwire for House of Heath.
This recycled cairn graphite 1000 micron stock makes for a brilliant deboss and texture. Vibrant copper either side with a stunning blind deboss, all topped off with a copper edge paint to match the foils. Nicely done!
Posted:
August 4th, 2015
| Category: 3 Passes, Blind Deboss, Business Cards, Edge Painting, Hot Foil
Tags: 1000mic, 3 Passes, black, business card, cairn, cairn graphite, copper, debossed, foiling, foils, graphite, heidelberg, Hot Foil, letterpress, recycled |
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A cool & stylish black/white Colorplan duplex card for Illustration Guru’s Inky Goodness.
Black & white 540gsm Duplex with a white foil logo and black & magenta inks, finished off with a beaming magenta edge paint. Great stuff.
Posted:
July 16th, 2015
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Duplex, Edge Painting, Hot Foil
Tags: 3 Passes, business card, colorplan, Duplex, Edge colour, edge painted, Edge Painting, foils, Hot Foil, hotfoil, letterpress, neon |
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We love a deboss and adding a subtle tint can really enhance it. Here’s a great example of a tinted deboss on Colorplan for architects Tigg + Coll. The yellow ink was hand mixed to match the yellow side of the Duplex.
Design by Sarah Coll
Posted:
April 14th, 2014
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Duplex, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 3 Passes, 540gsm board, business card, colorplan, deboss, debossed, Duplex, letterpress, tint, white, yellow |
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The TJM Projects logo called for extremely accurate registration. The overlap created a third colour without the need for a third pass on the press. Overlapping colours is a great way to create extra colours without increasing production costs.
Two colour versions of Colorplan Duplex were used to compliment the brand further.
Posted:
September 29th, 2013
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Duplex
Tags: 3 Passes, 540gsm board, business card, colorplan, Duplex, letterpress |
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Eye popping neon pink ink on 540gsm Colorplan with the Sugarway logo printed with a tint on the back.
Design & client:
Sugarway
Posted:
July 12th, 2013
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards
Tags: 3 Passes, 540gsm board, business card, colorplan, debossed, fluorescent, heidelberg, letterpress, neon |
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Posted:
November 26th, 2012
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Edge Painting, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 540gsm board, business card, colorplan, debossed, Edge Painting, gold ink, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, white |
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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
Posted:
January 19th, 2012
| Category: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 3 Passes, 540gsm board, black, black and white, business card, colorplan, Duplex, full bleed, heidelberg, ink, letterpress, red |
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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
Posted:
December 23rd, 2011
| Category: 3 Passes, Blind Deboss, Business Cards, Duplex, Edge Painting
Tags: 100% cotton paper, 3 Passes, black, black and white, business card, cotton paper, debossed, Duplex, edge painted, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing |
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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: 3 Passes, Business Cards, Edge Painting, Letterpress Techniques
Tags: 1000mic, 3 Passes, black, business card, debossed, Edge Painting, heidelberg, letterpress, recycled, silver ink |
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