Edge Painting Videos
I recently did a job for a friend of mine who designed his own invitations. Below are a few progress shots, but even more interesting is that I took some…
Bleeding Transparent White? | The Solution
So I had a recent run in with a color that used a lot of trans white (97%) getting really oozy and spotty. You can see some of the issues…
Wild! Paper and Silver Ink
I decided to order some Wild! paper to give it a try. It is a cotton paper specifically designed for letterpress and it has a nice neutral white texture with…
Halftones
Working with halftones is not the easiest thing with letterpress. It doesn't quite work like screen printing and four color process is not necessarily something recommended for this sort of…
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…
Edge Painting
We now have a new service at Panthera Press - edge painting! We can custom mix colors for you and even offer metallics and pearlized colors.
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…
Watercolor Wedding
So for this job the bride was hoping for a watercolor, splashed background. This isn't so much a tutorial as it is a little note about the process. Creating the…
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…
Ombre
Well, after a week of the flu, I'm finally back in the shop. So I wanted to take some photos of an interesting but simple process to print gradients on…
Duplex | Round Two
Duplexing Tutorial Part 2 - Well, as a way of following up my previous post, I'm trying a second method of duplexing - one that fuses printed stocks of two colors.…
Duplexing
Duplexing Tutorial Part 1 - Things have been very busy at Panthera Press. We've been doing some small jobs and have acquired an assistant - Lanny Lesniak. I want to…