C&P Rail Setup
I've been meaning to make this post for a while, but a recent mishap on press brought it back to mind. Recently while printing the tape on my rails lifted…
Handmade Paper
There are a lot of gorgeous papers out there for letterpress. I had the privilege of getting to work with some handmade paper. This was both a challenge and a…
Mini Press | Photopolymer for Relief Printing?
I recently acquired a little relief press from overseas. It's a small press designed for printing etchings and such. I haven't had much time to really work with it, but…
Getting Gold | Bronzing Letterpress
Getting a beautiful gold print often seems like an impossible task with out a hot foiling machine. Gold ink simply...doesn't look gold when printed on absorbent paper. I decided to…
The Perfect Lineup
Panthera Press is back in business! After a year abroad on Navy assignment with my husband, we have returned to Virginia Beach and printing is underway! I wanted to re-visit…
3 Waves Media (Edgepaint Ahead)
For this business card job for 3 Waves Media in Virginia Beach, I decided to do something a little different. In order to end up with the least amount of…
Die Cut | Take 2
I actually did this project a little while ago, but never got around to posting it. After my experimentation with the cheap sizzix dies I got the opportunity to do…
Halftones and Ombre
I decided to do another halftone experiment, just to confirm how my tests have improved my understanding of the halftone process. I also wanted to compare the plates with my…
Halftones | Take 3
So in an effort to test a few new effects, I have done a new halftone project. These plates were made by Concord Engraving - a platemaker that I've started…
Duplexing Part III (Pot Devin)
So the title is a half truth, it's not exactly a pot devin, it's a label paster and a little one, but I picked it up on eBay and thought…
A Letterpress Job – Start to Finish…
For this post I'm hoping to give some insight into my full printing process from beginning to end - digital to edge painting. These are some simple business cards designed…
Letterpress Edge Painting | Part 1
I can't be stopped - I constantly want to try new things, and sometimes I can't sleep at night because I'm just mulling a new process over and over in…
Die-cutting on Press
So, I wanted to try a little experiment based on a video I saw online. After I saw this I was eager to try a little cheap die-cutting experiment on…
Adventures in Scoring | Scoring Matrix
So, if you've seen my previous posts on scoring you will see how I attempted to create scores with plain photopolymer. Well, I had a job recently that required proper,…
Adventures in Scoring on Press
So this isn't a truly thorough exercise in scoring on press. It's just a few experiments to try out something I was curious about - scoring with photopolymer... Now I'm…