Parklife Press

Custom Letterpress and Beyond

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  • White Foil Duplexed Business Cards for Skornicka

    White Foil Duplexed Business Cards for Skornicka

    Beautifully designed business cards by Sophia Studio. Honored to help execute the vision with white foil on Colorplan Stone paper for the front, off-black letterpress ink on Fluorescent White Lettra paper for the back. White foil on colored paper is such a great choice when you want reversed text. Opaque white letterpress ink doesn’t tend…

  • Square Cards for BRIGHT DESIGNLAB

    Duplexed, edge-painted, blind-debossed business cards for Portland’s BRIGHT DESIGNLAB. Since the subtlety of the blind-pressed pattern on the front of the card is crucial, we couldn’t press both sides of the paper. So we printed the front and back on separate 300g sheets, the glued, trimmed, and edge-painted.  PAPER 600g Pearl White (Duplexed)INK Black, Blind debossEDGES Black

  • 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…

  • Antique Black Champagnium

    Back in April of 2015 we printed some excellent business cards for designer Amanda Benincasa. And then a few months later, she asked us to print her wedding invitations. The background floral image is actually just Pantone black ink — but when printed on the black Rising Museum Board, it creates a sort of bronze…

  • Artisan Business Cards for Chad Gorges

    Check out these business cards and display cards for Chad Gorges, a Kansas woodworker and furniture builder. We printed both on thick 600g Fluorescent White Lettra with black ink and a custom Periwinkle. Chad’s work is really amazing. A few photos are below, and a bunch more are at his website, www.chadgorges.com.

  • 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…

  • Four Inks on Black for Alex Jackson Studio

    Letterpress printing on black paper can pose challenges. Most letterpress inks are transparent, so they’re not going to show up on a black background. One exception is silver. Silver ink is mostly opaque (about 80%), so if you’re sneaky, you can print a silver ink run on the black paper to create a lighter base,…

  • Foil, Door Tags, and Alligators

    It’s great when we get to work with a wedding client from the very beginning – starting with the save the dates, moving on to the invitations, and then following through to the wedding day pieces. We did this for Elisa and Alexander, shifting the design vision slightly throughout the process while still maintaining a cohesive…