Retro Business Cards.

These business cards are a great example of how well letterpress business cards can reflect you or your company. The luxurious quality of the paper combined with great design and the unique look of letterpress printing will make your business card and you stand out from everyone else.
These were created using black ink and printed on to 100% cotton paper.

Napkin Type.

SHCH graphics group:
lovely use of type all hand rendered onto napkins.

Bermuda:Samples.

A lot of what Bermuda print are in leaflet/booklet form on various uncoated and coated stocks. Some of what they do is on a large scale in the form of posters, some can be seen in the background of the photos of the printers below.

Print Visit:Bermuda Digital Print.

On Friday I went to visit a small company called Bermuda Print and I got shown around their department. However they only specialize in digital print, but what they had to show me was all useful for the current brief and they were very happy to answer my questions. It was very informative to be shown the process of print especially on such a large scale in some cases. They also gave me a bunch of samples to take away which was very good of them.

screen print induction.

Two colour screen prints:
This was quite a useful refresher to screen print since I hadn't printed in a while. It was an interesting image we had to use and we experimented with the registration of the type to offset the image, it had quite a nice effect.

LETTERPRESS!!!

Yeyy finally got to do letterpress!!!Always wanted to know how this process worked and now I had the chance.
To create the above type I chose to use 18pt Clarendon Bold and 23pt leading.
Things to remember:

• make sure all the notches on each letter are facing upwards so that the type reads correctly when printed.
• use middles for the spaces between words.
• use thins for the spacing between punctuation.
• quads are used as padding to fill the gaps.
• also when creating the said type start from left to right making sure that the type is arranged backwards so that it will be printed correctly.

I will definitely try to use this process again at some point?!?!?

The process of printing book.

A BOOK OUTLINING THE PHILOSOPHY AND WORKING METHODS OF PRINTING COMPANY TEAM, AS WELL AS DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF INKS, FOILS AND FINISHES IN MULTIPLE PRINTING COMBINATION'S.
CONTAINS 64 PAGES, 24 WITH COLOUR DIAGRAMS. OFFSET LITHO 15 COLOURS PLUS FOIL BLOCKING, EMBOSSING, DIE CUTTING AND UV VARNISHING.