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SlowPrint™ : Letterpress for Design
SlowPrint offers letterpress printing and design for a unique impression of quality and elegance. Commercial letterpress, designer friendly! Personal stationery, holiday cards, business cards, note cards, mailers, book covers, jewelry tags and clothing tags, wedding and special event invitations. More affordable than you'd think! We've been thinking about what makes the best letterpress printing since 1979!
There ARE things more important than letterpress...
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New for 2010! Almost Free™ Letterpress from Slow Print features new lower cost fine paper options, flat-rate color and $135 flat-rate second-color options! Get your instant quote and order now for the best deal around for single-sided one or two-color business cards / small format letterpress cards!
Printed in four custom colors Hahnemuhle Copperplate Etching 300gsm
"Slow Print" means we typically spend more time proofing and fine-tuning than it takes to actually print the job. To produce exquisite printing requires more than just a press, a plate and ink. It requires an absolute commitment to spending the time required to adjust the ink, the rollers, the impression for each job. Like "Slow Food", we start with the best ingredients available, and we take the time to do it right!
Yes it does take time... which does cost, but not as much as you'd think Contact Us for more info!
Every job we receive gets the full benefit of our 30+ years of expertise in typography, letterpress printing and type design. We work with you directly as the designer, professional-to-professional.
The SlowPrint FAQ has been updated! Please take a look! We've tried to answer many of the questions that we commonly receive regarding invitation and business card pricing, artwork preparation, solid coverage, typography, and much more! A real time saver ;-)
If you have a few minutes, please read over the FAQ (http://slowprint.com/faq) which we hope will help to clarify the strengths of the letterpress impression.
We see many designs, which quite reasonably, reflect contemporary culture with strong saturated color and bold coverage across the surface of the paper. However, letterpress, of course, is a technology from the past, really, and its capabilities are rather of a different domain - more subtle colors, with limitations on ink coverage in many cases, but crisp, perfect typography and unmistakable texture and dimension.
We're famous in Dubuque - Again! Read the Sept 22 article in the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald.
Our new paper sampler is available, which includes our favorite fine papers for affordable letterpress, whether social, wedding or commercial printing.
Sign up for "Slow Print", our eNewsletter of Letterpress, Type and Culture. The Novmber 2009 issue is now available! We're featuring production notes on some of our recent work..
New from the SlowPrint CafePress Store!
We're so pleased with our new "flywheel" logo, that we just had to have a coffee mug and a new printer's apron with the design imprinted. And you can too! Visit our 'swag' store http://CafePress.com/slowprint and coffee break will be ever more colorful ;-)
Hot off the press - Projekt Business Cards
Design by Projekt - Silver Letterpress Ink on 600gsm Hahnemuhle German Etching Special Black
The Projekt logogram was hit twice on press. After running the whole card, we stripped the plate, leaving only the logogram, and sent the whole stack back through the Windmill! Don't try this on any other press!
Hot off the press for the Season
Design by SlowPrint for Jarn, Tønsberg, Norway - Two colors on dampened Crane Lettra Ecru 300gsm
The image is from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) adapted for two colors.
Hot off the press in October:
Business & Note cards for heart&stone Jewelry Design
Logo designed by Deborah Wieder. The note cards were designed by Darcy Doyle.
Printed in two colors on Crane Lettra Bright White 300gsm
Hot off the press in July:
Basta Surf Business Cards - Art direction: Dimitri Scheblanov dimitrischeblanov.com
"Watercolor Wash" duotone 0ffset litho plus lettepress on Rives BFK 260gsm
Hot off the press in June:
Wedding Invitations - Art direction: Verónica de La Pena, theverito.com - Design & typography: Peter Fraterdeus, Slow Print Studio
Two colors plus tint varnish on Hahnemuhle Copperplate Etching 300gsm
Hot off the press in 2009:
Three-color cards (two ink, one blind impression), design by Anna Viele
Crane Lettra Bright White 600 gsm
Ziabird design by Lee Monroe, Graphic Moxie, two color note cards, business cards
Strathmore Writing soft white 110# cover
Mari: The Studio - Note Cards and Gift Certificates on Strathmore Writing 110# Cover.
Design by Tracie Valentino, traciedesigns.net
Our friend EJ is also the co-owner of L. May, our favorite bistro!
These
are printed on the lucious 600 gsm double-weight Copperplate Etching
from Hahnemuhle. Logo & Typographic Design by Slow Print Studio.
Randolph Invitations
Fresh off the press, on Hahnemuhle German Etching 600gsm, invitations in Chocolate and Sage Green, designed by the client-bride-to-be.
We're very pleased to offer calligraphic design and addressing services from Georgia Deaver, internationally renowned San Francisco lettering artist .
More info and a downloadable PDF will be found in the new Calligraphy section
