See you next week!

I’ll be driving right by the Cedar Rapids airport on my way home Saturday (I live about 20 miles east of Cedar Rapids). As long as I don’t buy all the things at the Printer’s Fair, I should have plenty of room for another passenger if you decide to fly through Cedar Rapids. 

Hi Andrea!I started out with a 6×10 Kelsey table top press (and a Nolan cylinder press, which is a lot like a Showcard). I’ve since added a 10×15 C&P as well. The table top presses are great to learn on and are good for things that are smaller—business cards and greeting cards. I ran a 5×7 invite on the Kelsey once and it had a hard time…[Read more]

I get this question a lot as well. I work with a couple of different local printers for things that I can’t do in my shop, but I focus most of my efforts on pushing the letterpress work. Especially with wedding invites, I find a lot of brides want the invite to be letterpress, but the RSVP digital since it won’t stay with the invite in the long…[Read more]

I’ve bought pre-cut ones from Katz America before and have had good luck. They have squares, circles, and rectangles too I think.

Is there a swatchbook of these papers?

Dick Blick Art Supply sells both the mounted and unmounted variety.http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-battleship-gray-linoleum/Even with the mounted ones, you may have to do some make-ready to make them type high, but I do think it works a bit better than the unmounted variety.