Hello,
I’m Lisa Letters, just stopping by to post and say Hello. I work with Astrud and Paul, I’m in my initiation as a Print Monkey. I have a background in all things graphic design and printing. Eventually we will get the letterpress going and offer some new classes. Stay tuned.
Stop by to say Hi!
Lisa
Hey Lisa! What days/times are you most often in the print area?
Hellos! 
Can’t with for the letter press to get going!
Hi Lisa, I’m excited to see the press in action and whatever else you all have planned for print making!
Hi Lisa. Yes to the letterpress classes!
I made my oldest daughter’s wedding invitations using letterpress. They were AMAZING. I would love to work with this again.
I would love some letterpress classes. I used to work for a print shop that had a Miehle (loud) press they would use for die cutting and stamping jobs. (I never learned how to run it, just watched it operate up close)
Basically interested in any print classes I can get my mitts on.
I’m interested in making business cards.
Hello, I am working on my schedule at the moment but it is looking like Wednesday night might be the night we assemble for the letterpress class. However it won’t start until Novemberish, I will post when we got things rolling. Thanks for your interest.
So it looks like I’m going to be the one to wake this beast up again. Has been resting for what 6 years or so. I’m also interested in making business cards that have a little bit of extra to them that local business haven’t gotten into. As far as what I mean I want to introduce metallic ink. If this can be done at the DMS that would be amazing. As some of y’all know I’m normally blacksmithing at the DMS, other things like this need some attention though.
You mean metallic ink on paper? I’m thinking screen printing, but @lisaletters or @Hardsuit would have more insight
Are you looking to print something with bare metals? Or are you looking for metallic colors where there is some other pigment that gives it a different shade (more like the green in the image you linked)?
Yes more of a metallic ink similar to the calligraphy ink on this drawing. Most printing press places stop at silver for metallic ink. Wanted to know if this combination would be possible using metallic inks for each color.
The inks are metallic green, gold and silver on a black paper. The card I’m aiming for would still be black card just business card stock so it’s more durable.
Ahh makes sense. I thought that there might be some overlap with making circuits/PCBs that I’m potentially interested in doing in Science.
It does sound like a 4 color registration screen printing thing. I recently took the intro to screen printing and it was mentioned that metallics/inks with glittery particles could be done with a coarse mesh. As to the availability of specific colors other than silver I would have to defer to the printmaking experts here.
Yeah I’ve been waiting to build the cards rather than settle with a basic printing ink style and just wanted to know if we have this capability or if I need to outsource.
Size of the card, size of the text, timeframe for finished product?
This is the type of project that, while it can be done at DMS, is actually a fairly advanced project even for the teachers. If it is something that is a long term goal to learn, and your willing to invest a fair amount of both time and money (it will require specific equipment and supplies we don’t utilize in normal classes here) then we can work with you on that. We have not done any experimentation with either metallic inks or photopolymer plates, which I would expect to be necessary for a multicolor business card to be produced via letterpress.
Otherwise, it will be best to simply order the cards from a dedicated printer.
I have time to spare. Is there any books or names of the tools needed you might recommend that would talk about the process I’m looking to take part in. That way I can prep a little more before going at it and asking to much from teachers at the DMS? As far as all the little stuff that will be more at the finish stage of the card making no rush though.
I’m not completely sure I understand what you are trying to do here. I’m more of a “gotta see it” sorta person. This image does not look like a business card, there is no text on it, so I’m confused about the project. If it’s a piece of art that you are trying to create in multicolors, I question whether it can be done with block printing, but I don’t really know until I see it. We have some metallic oil-based inks, such as gold and silver for either letterpress or block printing. If you are looking for specific colors you might need to buy your own inks to use for the project.
The picture I placed on this was the side with no text while on the other side add the name of business, contact info and any other info that might need to be placed on there. That wouldn’t be very difficult to come up with and that can be one single color on the opposite side. As for placing the picture on the card it will be on normal sized card size so some won’t be included in the card size. I am fine purchasing metallic ink if needed. Is this something where I would need to have multiple blocks with lines on it that relate to that color then add each other block with that color as well. If you have time I will be coming up to the space around evening time today maybe we can go over it then or sometime soon. I can bring the art work I want to transfer to the card.
