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letterpress buissness cards?
Posted by chihiro in
9 Mar 2012 — 10:02am
9 Mar 2012 — 10:02am
hello,
i am looking to print some buisness cards(letterpress)
similar style as that one http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=10922
i quite like something like black business cards /letterpress printed on super thick black cotton /
cam you give me some companies who are offering that service please?
Thank you
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9 Mar 2012 — 10:54am
You probably want somebody local to you.
If not: http://typophile.com/node/35023#comment-226163
Dislaimer: I don't own my own press*, I rent a Vandercook.
BTW my first generation business card** was light-on-dark,
which is pretty tricky - although it's a lot easier on nice and
dark black stock.
* Although I do own two sizes of Pascal.
** A (rather poor) photo here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48413419@N00/4121695105/in/set-721576228588...
An extra complication there was
that the ink was made using wine. :-)
hhp
9 Mar 2012 — 10:54am
The page you link to lists the design firms.
Here are a couple letterpress print shops:
Boxcar Press: boxcarpress.com
Cranky Pressman: http://www.crankypressman.com/cranky_pressman/
For these places, you are best designing your own graphics or hiring a graphic designer.
Also google "digital letterpress." Unless you want metal type, of course.
9 Mar 2012 — 11:21am
BTW, one of the cards on that page
went through a design crit here:
http://typophile.com/node/61540
hhp
11 Mar 2012 — 3:08am
As Hrant said, you'll undoubtedly want someone local (and as I see that you're in London, there ought to be many options), but I can highly recommend a local letterpress shop here in Seattle, Day Moon Press. They've finally got a website, though I don't think it represents them very well as yet:
http://www.daymoonpress.com/index.html
I've worked with Maura & Jack many times over quite a few years; they are not only skillful but imaginative, finding solutions that use the varying levels of technology to good effect. For anyone in or near Seattle, or for whom geographical proximity doesn't matter, I can't think of anyone I'd recommend more. (And yes, that *is* saying something.)