Printing 2015

Here are some photos from printing this year's cards. We planned the card via email and then managed to do all the printing in one day, front and back. Photos start at the bottom.

The type back in its case

Finished cards

Ben printing (the press is closed to bring the type and card together to print)

Ben printing (the press is open to allow him to remove the printed card and insert a new blank card)

The press ready to print

The type for the inside in the press

A printed card

The type for the inside locked up in the chase

Printed card in the press

A printed card before removal from the press

Ready to print on the Arab, with purple ink on the ink plate at the top

Type in the Arab press ready to print the front

Proofs

Proofs in the Adana press

Ben with the Adana, the Arab is in the background

Initial proof, the quality wasn't as good as using the Arab press, so in the end we decided to use the Arab

All the type locked up in the Adana chase to proof it

Our initial idea was to use a small Adana press instead of our big Arab press

 

Looking at colours

Tiny type in its case

Typesetting the insides, we used the smallest size of type we have for the Parsnip Press line (6pt)

The type for the front