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 can take floor model C&Ps apart in order to make them smaller. I would suggest searching the forums on briar press for more info on that.I would also suggest, if you haven’t printed before, that you take a letterpress workshop or find a printer in your area to mentor you. The help of other printers is invaluable.Good luck!

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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 paper feeder), but it comes in handy to have this service available for certain pieces. For the order I mentioned above, the client had their wedding website insert, a schedule of events, and a small save the date for a separate event digitally printed. None of those pieces really needed to be letterpress printed and I was able to provide them with the invitations that they really wanted. Plus, I was able to get additional business from them for other pieces of day-of wedding stationery, some of which will be letterpress and some of which will be digital.

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