How A Professional Letterpress Printer Makes Wedding Invitations

Chelsea Cuykendall is a letterpress printer who prints wedding invitations and business cards for small businesses. She creates a design with the client and then has a letterpress plate called a photopolymer made, which is used to ink the design onto paper. The process involves a lot of multitasking where Chelsea has to switch out each piece and maintain a steady rhythm with her foot on the treadle.
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How A Professional Letterpress Printer Makes Wedding Invitations

[@wickandde]

0:18 looks like a fancy funeral invite at a contemporary art gallery with an all white dress code, and they serve you mourning purple cocktails in light bulb glasses with waiters wearing black robes and lace masks. Sounds so much fun, I'd definitely go.

[@not-a-worm]

This is so freaking specific and I love it

[@ratataouille]

hey uh anyone free at 0:22 (check the invitation) i need someone to see if it’s real and can be invaded by some drunk sloth

[@audreyli_creations]

@@ratataouille ...

[@ratataouille]

@@audreyli_creations :)

[@papasscooperiaworker3649]

It’s so specific but it makes sense LOL

[@itsjustbrandy4290]

0:54 I dont mean to knock anybody but that invitation looks like it for a funeral. I literally thought it was until I paused and read it.

[@andreajurado6326]

aww they’re getting married on my birthday lol

[@qwe_qwe6299]

Hehehe

[@bleurhgh]

someone died on your birthday

[@eyan12]

thats my birthday too lol

[@esewey1289]

Who asked?

[@zonzaykay]

@LagSoSad I asked

[@simone5200]

This takes me back to my art school days... I used to spend hours alone in the printing room, sometimes not even doing my own work, instead printing other people's stuff for them because they were too scared to used the machinery

[@hindsightpov4218]

This feels very old school, and I mean that in the best way. The same technique could have been used hundreds of years ago and it’s still applicable today. It’s timeless.

[@sierrad8476]

Wow! What timing! My graphic design history class has been covering the printing press and its various renditions! This is so cool to watch!

[@saims.2402]

I feel nervous every time she puts her hand on that machine thing.

[@selkie2373]

She low key exposed people’s wedding dates and locations so if someone really wanted to they could go to that person's wedding 🥴😂😅

[@audreyli_creations]

i literally just saw a reply to a comment asking if it was real so they could go to their wedding too lmao

[@georgemacmillan1850]

George I was a compositor in letterpress printing and seeing this young girl using a treadle printing machine just brought back to me how dangerous these machines really are. During my 6 year apprenticeship I watched an apprentice printer operate this type of machine and was astonished that after 6 years he still had a full set of fingers! Stay safe Chelsea.

[@MrsTJohnson5]

Do you know any of those presses in a modern or electronic way? I would like to own one but i think those are Just Huge

[@seijiamasawa3346]

Seee this is what I subbed for! Very nice!

[@tiaking2002]

I may have just found my dream job. 😮

[@SorayaZiziArtist]

Awesome! Would love a feature!

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Wow, it's so, so different from making it on Microsoft PowerPoint (that's what I did lol)

[@saims.2402]

But it’s probably not as high quality as making it by hand right?

[@iisxmmur6996]

yes

[@thehalalfoodtaster7321]

Thank you for sharing

[@zitronentee]

I feel like suddenly Patrick Bateman barging in to take his fresh printed business card.

[@SimSimArt]

Wow

[@dilan_2074]

indian wedding invitation cards are made the same way

[@XactlyCeSe1]

It looks like steampunk

[@edgeof1956]

I wonder if they could do raised ink? Do they do raised ink as a printing option?

[@stewballs7]

They did I don't whether or not there's much of it about now, it was called Thermography or Virkotype, but since the 'fashion' these days is to print with so much impression (probably because they don't have the skill to make ready properly) you wouldn't be raising the print above the surface of the paper, you would be just filling in the deep indentation.

[@dah9vandals]

But does it have a water mark?

[@jasmina.8473]

Nice reference

[@rameen.f22]

Why am i even here lol

[@pamanthanos9742]

jukebox bringme here

[@ForteExpresso]

Why are the design from the west are bare and their colour palette so simple with usually only light colours?

[@byaprylle]

Because letterpress prints get more expensive the more colors you add and how intricate the design is.

[@pariz1738]

4th?

[@saims.2402]

Well you’re actually third, because I commented twice.

[@workhardforit]

@0:19 that’s a wedding invitation? Looked like a funeral/memorial invitation. Why the hell put a design that looks like a frigging tombstone?

[@patrick3433]

3 hours early

[@jennglow4647]

😃😲

[@addictedtothebold]

Good girls anyone???

[@saims.2402]

And I guess I’m first.

[@Elena-kg8cq]

Why waste paper kill our trees

[@some0ne46]

Wow