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How A Professional Letterpress Printer Makes Wedding Invitations
Chelsea Cuykendall is a letterpress printer who prints wedding invitations and business cards for small businesses. She creates a design with the client and then has a letterpress plate called a photopolymer made, which is used to ink the design onto paper. The process involves a lot of…
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George
I was a compositor in letterpress printing and seeing this young girl using a treadle printing machine just brought back to me how dangerous these machines really are. During my 6 year apprenticeship I watched an apprentice printer operate this type of machine and was astonished that after 6 years he still had a full set of fingers! Stay safe Chelsea.
yes
Good girls anyone???
But does it have a water mark?
@0:19 that’s a wedding invitation? Looked like a funeral/memorial invitation.
Why the hell put a design that looks like a frigging tombstone?
Why are the design from the west are bare and their colour palette so simple with usually only light colours?
I feel like suddenly Patrick Bateman barging in to take his fresh printed business card.
I wonder if they could do raised ink?
Do they do raised ink as a printing option?
Why waste paper kill our trees
It looks like steampunk
Wow
This takes me back to my art school days… I used to spend hours alone in the printing room, sometimes not even doing my own work, instead printing other people's stuff for them because they were too scared to used the machinery
Seee this is what I subbed for! Very nice!
I may have just found my dream job. 😮
She low key exposed people’s wedding dates and locations so if someone really wanted to they could go to that person's wedding 🥴😂😅
indian wedding invitation cards are made the same way
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Thank you for sharing
0:54 I dont mean to knock anybody but that invitation looks like it for a funeral. I literally thought it was until I paused and read it.
This feels very old school, and I mean that in the best way. The same technique could have been used hundreds of years ago and it’s still applicable today. It’s timeless.