My advice is to start with a 6″x10″ C&P tabletop press and upgrade when you outgrow it.Yes, you can get an impression with a press that size, but only on a very small area. The largest area I’ve gotten an impression with a similar style/size press is about 3″x3″, maybe a bit larger. A 5″x8″ will not be large enough to print wedding invitations.You…[Read more]

Drink coasters would be great!Note cards would be cool if there were no rules except that they had to come with an envelope :-)But I’m interested in anything.Ren

I dont know that we have enough interest to do the entire alphabet. But we could do a different swap, that doesn’t require a set number to be complete! My other ideas:gift tags ** my current favorite idea!note card setsDrink coasters (each does a different drink/beverage recipe or design) Recipe cardsI will think on more ideas.. Any one have an…[Read more]

4-8 depending… Although I end up using a regular piece of card stock that is cut to the size I need. Once everything from color and impression to placement is where I want it to be, I’ll put in the real thing. Still, like Kristy said: too many! 😉

I’d say 7 to 10 business days. I’ve seen as much as 2 to 4 weeks as well. I have a C&P 10×15 and at first it took forever to do things- set up, inking, printing,etc. The longer you work on them, the more proficient you become. If you have items that you want to print for yourself, or to sell, I would time yourself from start to finish and see how…[Read more]

I’ve done that as well- in fact, the job I am working on has both digital (ink jet) and letterpress components. I’ve seen it called a variety of things; I’ve settled on calling it hybrid. It is time consuming and mine was a pain, as I could not for the life of me get it to feed through the rear of my printer, so it took me over and hour and a half…[Read more]

Too many.

i can’t remember where i heard this but shoot adding 10%  more paper per color/layer for proofs. 

Thanks, mine arrived. Gorgeous!

I do combinations of digital printing/letterpress printing. I just finished an eight piece wedding suite with five letterpress pieces and three digital pieces. Well, ink jet pieces. I find that my ink jet can get a close color match and digital Lettra accepts the ink beautifully. It’s pretty time-consuming (I run a page at a time through the rear…[Read more]

thanks for sharing

I would be happy to do more than one letter, too.

I’m fine with doing more than one letter.

The chase rests on the screws.

Thanks everyone!

While I don’t print so much anymore, I design invites from time to time and I offer letterpress/digital printing combos to brides who want to save a little bit of money. The color matching is a bit of a pain, especially if it’s running on digital and not offset where you can specify the Pantone color to match. I recently did a job where the bride…[Read more]

I do offer this, but I work at a digital print shop so I’m in complete control of color, stock, timing etc. We keep the 90# Lettra Digital in stock at work so I can run the digital portion on the same paper as the letterpress portion most of the time. It can be a hassle, but it can help with brides on a budget- if they can’t afford to have…[Read more]