The first of two business cards we printed for clients of the incomparable designer Chad Makerson Micheal. This one’s kinda nuts: A duplexed card with three letterpress inks plus sliver foil on the front, three letterpress inks on the back, glued and die-cut. Super tight registration on the inks and foil all around.

PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 46
INK Black, PMS 2035U, PMS 2327U
FOIL Silver Shine
FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut

This next one for Sespe Creek is another duplexed card with three letterpress inks both front and back. Such an awesome level of detail in Chad’s designs — perfect for letterpress printing.

PAPER Duplexed Gmund Matt 50
INK Tinted White, PMS 3015U, PMS 2035U
FINISHING Duplex, Die-cut

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Photos by Gritchelle

At long last! We created a beautiful and compact swatch book showcasing all the ways we can bring your projects to life. The pack includes a 20-page booklet full of our cotton, Colorplan, Gmund, and museum board stocks with a range of print processes and finishing techniques, all smartly bound with a (removable) Chicago post. Want one? Get in touch and we’ll make it happen.

A few standout capabilities we’ve featured:

• Blind letterpress vs. tinted-white letterpress

• Tonal letterpress

• Letterpress overprints

• Letterpress halftones

• Metallic letterpress on black paper

• Metallic and satin foil stamping

• White foil

• Tonal foil

• Holographic foil

• Foil stamping over digital printing

• Die cutting

• Blind embossing

• Foil + emboss

• Letterpress labels

• Hole drilling & eyelets

Photos by Gritchelle

Embossed and duplexed business cards for Portland’s Wildwood House!

If you’re printing a two-sided business card and you don’t want to see the reverse of your embossed image on the back of the piece, we can duplex two sheets after embossing to hide the embossing. For this set, we embossed 350g Colorplan Pistachio, printed black letterpress on 300g Lettra Fluorescent White, glued the two together, and then die-cut to finish the card.

It’s also a good idea to die-cut an embossed & duplexed card rather than trim it on a standard guillotine cutter. That way the emboss doesn’t get mashed by the cutter clamp.

PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Pistachio & Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Black
FINISHING Die-cut

Photos by Gritchelle

We’ve printed cards for the friendly folks at Empress a few times now. This time around, we helped develop a new design with artwork based on Emily’s tattoo, thick duplexed paper, and gold edge paint.

PAPER Duplexed Colorplan Candy Pink & Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Custom Green & Pink, Black
EDGE PAINT Gold

One of the nicest fake products we’ve ever designed! We created this label to help illustrate our new line of Letterpress Labels & Tags.

We printed this one with pale yellow and black inks on Pearl White cotton paper, then added peel-and-stick adhesive and a custom die cut.

Photos by Gritchelle

In-house design for long-time Parklife clients Hadley & Nick.

PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White
INK Stone & Custom Orange
TYPE Day & Isabella
EDGE PAINT Custom Orange

Photos by Gritchelle

Designed by Kristin Allen for Ashley Grant Interiors, these thick two-sided cards are printed on separate 300g sheets, then duplexed after printing so that the impressions on the front and back don’t affect each other. Printing front and back on a 600g sheet is always an option too, but if you want 100% crisp and clean impressions, a duplexed card is the way to go.

PAPER 600g Lettra Fluorescent White duplexed from 300g sheets
INK Pantone 400U, 402U, 7562U
EDGE PAINT Antique Gold

Photos by Gritchelle