This is a how to article in creating a letterpress plate from the beginning to the end. The order starts out with a design, a color chosen, and a file sent. On this order the designer created a vector art file and set a fill to pms 872 gold. The document was then exported to… Read More Creating a letterpress plate using artwork exported to pdf
Started our Christmas cards this weekend!!! It is that time of year, while giving thanks for the fridge full of delicious Thanksgiving leftovers…we shift into Christmas mode. The history of greeting cards dates back to the ancient Chinese who exchanged messages of goodwill to celebrate a New Year, and to early Egyptians who used papyrus… Read More LetterPressing Cards
This 1970’s themed party invitation was so much fun to print on our Chandler & Price 12×18 Letterpress. Of course, creating a 70’s themed invitation on a press that existed in that era was inevitable given the fondness for classical printmaking pervading our little studio. From making the negatives and plates to hand feeding the platen,… Read More Roll Up
Presenting our “new” Letterpress: Meet our newest addition (yet to be named) to the Hobart Print Studio Family, the Chandler & Price 12×18 Platen Press. And what about that handsome fella in the photo, you ask? That is Gary, our master mover of all things extremely heavy…thanks for coming through again Gary! Weighing in at… Read More Our “New” Letterpress
Yes…our Heidelberg Windmill is named “Heide Grace” – she is a delicate, but formidable lady. And like her namesake (Sarah Grace Hobart) don’t get in her way when she has a job to do! Here, you see her and our awesome pressman, Randy Hobart, in action printing return addresses on envelopes for wedding invitations. Learn… Read More Heide Grace Addresses the Situation
Excited about our newest press…a Chandler & Price Platen Press – 12×18. Just purchased it today and can’t wait to get this press moved into our studio. The C&P was built to last, it’s not unusual to find them still operating after over 50 years of daily use. It is a hand feed press and… Read More A Proper Platten: C&P Letterpress