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Tag: duplex

  • Sydney Foil Invites

    Client-designed invitations with simple gray letterpress on the front and gold foil on the back. We printed the front and back on separate sheets then duplexed after printing for a thick card with no impression show-through. PAPER 600g Pearl White (duplexed)INK StoneFOIL Gold Shine

  • Happy Halloween! (+ $100 Coupon)

    Boo! This year’s Parklife Halloween card features black ink plus two shades of foil on a duplexed sheet: French Paper Speckletone Kraft for the front and Kraft-Tone Ledger Green for the back. Oh yeah, there’s a discount too. Just mention this post between now and the end of November to get $100 off an order…

  • Golden Black Squares for MA Allen Interiors

    Another awesome duplexed card. This one’s for interior design firm, MA Allen Interiors. We actually printed wedding invitations for the firm’s founder back in 2010, and she came back to us for business cards after opening her Raleigh firm. On the front we’ve got gold foil on 30pt black museum board — and on the…

  • Bright and Blingy for Dyfari Interiors

    Over the past eight years, we’ve worked with Diane on baby shower invitations, thank you notes, and several rounds of business cards (see some here and here) for her business, Dyfari Interiors. This round was by far the most ambitious. For the front we printed fluorescent pink letterpress ink and gold satin foil on 30pt white…

  • Holographic Foil For Bakedown Cakery

    We first met Jen back in 2014 when we printed the wonderful invitation set she designed. Since then she’s been hard at work building her cake-baking empire at Bakedown Cakery. Check out her work below, and if you don’t get too distracted by the cakes, scroll down to see the awesome duplexed letterpress + holographic…

  • Business Cards for Dixon Kirby

    Another G Brand design, this one for design and builders Dixon Kirby. These are duplexed cards, printed with two inks on Pearl White Lettra for the front, and one ink on Adriatic Colorplan for the back.

  • Red Flooded Business Cards

    Solid floods of color can be tricky with letterpress. But if you play your no-pun-intended cards right, you can get great results. Lighter/brighter colors tend to print more evenly. And die-cutting the cards rather than knife trimming can help keep the raised unprinted paper from getting squished or scuffed. For these square cards we printed…

  • Just a Dream (About Letterpress)

    For designer and event consultant, Ilaria Ceresoli and her business Just a Dream, we printed these super-deluxe foil + letterpress business cards on 100% cotton Somerset paper. Since Ilaria designed these with foil and a blind deboss on both sides, we printed the front and back on separate sheets of 330g Somerset paper, then duplexed…

  • Our Letterpress Halloween Card = 15% Off Business Orders

    Whoa. Check out this hot-off-the-press Halloween card — designed and printed right here at our Portland studio. On the outside it features a medium gray ink and a 50/50 mix of transparent and opaque white on 65# Neenah Astrobrights Cosmic Orange. And on the inside it’s the same gray ink plus a custom orange on 90#…

  • Golden Botanicals Wrapped & Sealed

    If you thought the letterpress save the dates we printed for Randi & Ben this spring were cool, I think you’re gonna like the follow-up. This was truly a collaborative project. Randi designed the two-sided invitation and sleeve, and sent the specs off to us. We printed the front of the invitation on 300g Pearl…