Photos of the swap are up on my blog:http://ladybugpress.com/blog/2011/12/ladies-of-letterpress-2012-calendar/

Photos of the calendars coming soon! I just have to upload them!

Turns out those that paid with paypal .. your addresses didn’t show! Bummer! im mailing back to the address on your original packing.Kozo — please contact me…Angela

Wow they must gold plate the die for that price!

DO IT!

I posted a how-to in the blog a while back–have a look!

I’d love to see some pics too as I may need to create a die bed myself w/ my c&p!!mine has been sitting in my garage for 2 months – untouched.. i need to get on this thing..

Count me in, my nieces and nephews are getting tried of the same Birthday card every year!

Thanks I though so.. I’ll tell them to hold off.

That seems really really high. I order from Micon Steel Rule die in MA, and sometimes a local guy, and their prices range from around $45 for a simple shape to $140 for a complicated scalloped one.

Hi all – I just looked into ordering a couple dies (from Atlas) to make a rounded corner business card and they wanted $350 for one! Wow – is that normal? Thanks – Sharon

Christen…could you please send me a list of reps too? Thanks in advance.

I can send you a list of reps. I have a list from when I owned a greeting card line. It’s a very small world, so if a rep isn’t taking on new lines, they may be able to refer you to someone. We always preferred to work in independent reps.Email me 😉 

All submissions have been received. Will everyone please email your shipping address (just to make sure that everyones goes to the correct address.) It will make it easier to double check them all. If you paid with paypal we are going to use your paypal address.angela@ladybugpress.comI hope to get them all photographed, combined and shipped by…[Read more]

How does one find a decent sales rep (that hopefully knows what letterpress is!)?

For clean-up, I roll as much ink as possible off onto newsprint—put newsprint on the ink disk and let the rollers roll over that; change newsprint and do it again and again, until there is very little ink left to use a solvent on. I use mineral spirits on the press, but I use concentrated CitraSolv on my hands in the sink. That works very well.

Definitely the Stationery Show and sales reps! At least to get things rolling… Don’t expect a huge amount of orders from the show, but hopefully, if you attract a few key stores, sales reps will want to rep you…Good Luck!

For acrylic-based, I’ve used this once at the local book arts center to get a silver metallic off my hands: http://www.pressmanspride.com/reallyworks6-45lb.aspx It worked amazingly well but seems pretty expensive.