Beautifully designed business cards by Sophia Studio. Honored to help execute the vision with white foil on Colorplan Stone paper for the front, off-black letterpress ink on Fluorescent White Lettra paper for the back.

White foil on colored paper is such a great choice when you want reversed text. Opaque white letterpress ink doesn’t tend to print crisply and it’s not totally opaque. And printing a color flood background with knocked out text can look uneven and can lead to scuffing. White foil prints crisply and has near 100% opacity.

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

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

Custom duplexed business cards for Austin’s Madhouse Development Services. On the back, in order to get extra bite into the fairly dense Keaykolour stock, we used a heated copper die rather than the usual polymer plate.

FRONT Pantone 485U and 426U on 300g Lettra Fluorescent White
BACK Blind impression on 300g Keaykolour Chili Pepper

Photos by Gritchelle

These duplexed business cards were printed as part of a larger suite of collateral we worked on for the Hattiesburg landscapers at Shade. Everything was designed by Whitney Miracle, and she picked out an awesome combination of Kraft-Tone papers from French Paper Company along with platinum and pale green foils.

PAPER Kraft-Tone Carbon Copy, Kraft-Tone Packing Chip
FOIL Platinum, Satin Apple
INK Tinted White

Photos by Gritchelle

The simplicity of this beautifully modern bride-designed invitation set is deceiving! The production of this 5-piece suite required letterpress ink, foil stamping, inkjet printing, and duplexing.

The invitation features a mix of serif and san-serif letterpress text along with a small floral motif that we added in an inkjet run.

The reply postcard is a bit trickier, created from two 300g sheets, one letterpress printed and one inkjet printed and then foiled over the top. Then we duplexed and trimmed to create a single thick 600g card.

On to the agenda card! This one's printed with letterpress ink on the front and inkjet on the back of a single 300g sheet.

Finally, the reception card, travel insert, and envelope were more straightforward. Simple gray letterpress ink on 300g paper and a 120g cotton envelope.