Heavy Metal Letterpress Blog

Alexandra & Doug Wedding Invitations

Miguel Castro — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:15:38 +0000

I produced these invitations for Alexandra League and Douglas Hughmanick, co-workers of mine at Level Studios. Doug handled the design work and I helped letterpress the invites along with the RSVP cards. Paper used for this project was Paper 140 lb.

Julian’s Birth Announcement Cards – trifold

Miguel Castro — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:44:44 +0000

This project was designed by Jorge Fino for his son Julian. Printed on Crane Lettra Paper 110 lb florescent. This project was one of the hardest projects I have done so far during my adventure into letterpress. Basically found out that my press was no plained evenly and went through a few different processes to get it to the point where it would press correctly. Overall though this project turned out really nice, considering the amount of detail and registration required.

Wedding Invitations Holyoke Paper

Miguel Castro — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:31:24 +0000

My sister is getting married soon, and I had the opportunity to design and letterpress her invitations. They are printed on Holyoke Antique Paper 140 lb. I actually noticed during this project that I completely messed up on the polymer plate making process. If you notice where the orange and blues leaves are, the stems where not suppose to show through. I accidentally forgot to fix that in the illustrator file before sending to get the plate made. Even though its clearly a mess up, I actually kind of liked the look of it better.

Letterpress Baby Shower Invites

Miguel Castro — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:39:12 +0000

I designed these cards a few months ago, and finally got the time to letterpress. They were done on Crane Lettra Fluorescent 110 lb paper. I also used a creasing matrix on the press, which was pretty easy to do. The cards were sewn together at the top, thanks Tricia for you help on this. I did run into some issues with having it not ink in certain areas, so there was a lot of make ready to do beforehand. I ran into some headaches with this project, but overall am very happy with the outcome.

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Bang! Whimper Clothing Tags

Miguel Castro — Sun, 02 May 2010 03:15:14 +0000

A friend of mine needed some tags made for his clothing line called Bang! Whimper. The tags are done on Mohawk Fine Paper Proterra, 110 double thick cover (298 gsm). The paper has a kraft looking feel to it, and really goes well with the clothing line that is coming out soon.

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Scoring Rule & Creasing Matrix test run

Miguel Castro — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:05:36 +0000

So I finally purchased a scoring rule and some creasing matrix from NA Graphics. The scoring rule is a piece of metal .918 height that when pressed onto the creasing matrix applies a score to the paper. The Creasing Matrix is applied to the Typman paper where the paper sits on top and gives it a crease. See images below.

Here is an image of the scoring rule and creasing matrix. The Creasing matrix (Yellow piece) has a sticky side that sticks to the typman paper.

This is how it works, the scoring rule press the paper into the creasing matrix.

Creasing Matrix applied to typman paper.

Scoring Rule locked up in the Chase.

Final test run done on Crane Lettra 110lbs paper.

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