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letterpress printed business cards!!!

9/23/2012

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Whoa, four weeks later and fall is here…  BUT: I've been pretty busy and one of the things I did was this:
charmed Liebling business card front
Anna working the printing press
Yes, I finally had some business cards printed, yay!! And these are not just ordinary cards: I worked with one of my friends here in Rochester, who is a true artist and one of the loveliest people I have met here so far. Amy helped me find the perfect design for my cards and we had entirely too much fun finalizing everything and - the most important step - printing a whole pile of cards with the printing press at the Genesee Center for the Arts and Education.

Letterpress is special to me, since I have worked at the Gutenberg museum in Mainz, Germany, the city where I had lived for eight years until I moved to the States. And I am not lying if I tell you, the Gutenberg museum is one of the nicest museums on printing history and books arts you will ever find! 

So back to my business cards, since they would have a front and a back side, each card had to go through the press twice; I was using three colors for my design and you can only print one color at a time. My goal was to print 300 cards and I printed two cards at a time (on one sheet of paper which at the end had to be cut down). That means on the whole I had to feed the press about 900 times. You have no idea how much my arm hurt afterwards, but it was totally worth it! I am totally in love with the result!
Please check out Amy's website at greengirlpress.com and her wonderful designs as well.

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working the press. LOVE it!
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cards are printed and ready to be cut down
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Amy's dog Max. It was his birthday by the way!!
charmed Liebling pile of business cards
300 finished business cards
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