The making of a Letterpress Business Card with Gradient and Embossing

[@zachiro20]

So good to see you back!

[@randomelectronicsanddispla1765]

The moment you get break free a stack of finished cards must be so satisfying

[@lancewithasea]

to say I miss your work is an understatement

[@brunovilela3619]

So happy to see the channel uploading again!

[@copelandart]

Blind embossing it's my favorite letterpress function! It makes sense that you used a cutting die, since the paper was was double-thick and a relatively soft 100% cotton. I haven't done letterpress work for years and I miss it. Since my stroke, it'd be difficult, so I really appreciate you stepping into the "Way-back Machine" so I can re-live the experience!

[@edyemirperes6714]

Hola me saludas plis

[@Manachtron]

Welcome back! Nice seeing you return with such a beautifully filmed project!

[@KiranHuilgol]

Great to see you folks back, excellent video as always

[@dreistadt]

Beautiful product, such a peaceful video. Perfect! ❤ Thank you. 🙂

[@msheaver]

Welcome back; we mised ya big tme!

[@PIXEL_SMASH]

Can you make a video showing how the printing plates are made? It's the most important part for how the digital graphics become printable and you always skip that part. Does another company make those?

[@timothyreed8417]

The sounds… The smells… The finished product… Nothing like a print shop….

[@christianschoenberg1370]

Wow… great method! Nice to see you guys have returned!

[@robin_marriott]

They’re back!

[@ddave7026]

by the time I got into printing in the mid-90s. These machines were just sitting in the corner collecting dust, my boss just sold them all to whoever even threw some away. I just ran nothing but offset presses and four color heidelberg's. I always wanted to get into this but it was already something our shop couldn't utilize sadly.

[@craigl8761]

A couple of light blobs of machine grease, or even better, Vaseline, between the emboss die and the counter force to hold the force in place when transferring the force, instead of messing about with tape, is much easier... I spent many years struggling with tape till somebody showed me this way... Great video

[@JorgeOrtiz-xw3iv]

Muy bueno! Soy del sur de argentina! Alcance a ver en la imprenta donde trabajaba el proceso similar para las cajas de chocolates con la impresion en offset y luego en la troqueladora las marcas de doblado y corte simultaneo! Igual teniamos una heildelber igual automatica y ahi hacian las tarjetas de Navidad con foil de colores para las estrellas o arbolitos etc con una rama (o molde termico) que hacia que el foil caliente se adhiriera a la cartulina! Muy buena la tarjeta con el relieve en seco para la marca!!

[@angelarubio9137]

Mil gracias por volver a darnos un video!!!! Lo echábamos de menos muchísimo. Me encantan los ideos que haces y como lo muestras. Te ánimo a que sigas,. Entiendo que no lo subías antes por algún problema. Espero que lo hayas solucionado. Un abrazo desde España!!!!

[@dpmakestuff]

Was that copper plate with the small type etched?

[@jdpinod]

Pure art... ¡great work!

[@Hello-zm8il]

Welcome back to youtube! Its been a while! Hope you guys are doing well

[@koenmassant]

Mesmerizing! It was just last week I looked back to your channel if I missed some videos. And boom there is the next one 🙂 I have 2 questions: As a digital printer myself, why do you not cut the cards with a guillotine? I presume it damages the embossing? How much do you charge for these set of cards? It takes so much labor.

[@Happy_Pixel]

Where i work, when we have an embossing on paper, we still cut the paper with a polar cutting machine. (I think that is what you would call a guillotine, i'm not sure if that is the right technical term as i am from Belgium with only 1,5 years of work experience.) What we do is set the pressure of the pressingbar that keeps the paper secure as low as possible and we put a rubber padding (like the ones on a cutting die) with magnets on to that pressingbar. To be sure the paper is cut straight with that little pressure, we also put our paper in the right side of the machine so that when we cut the paper, it cant move sideways. To this day, i havent heard a bad review of a customer about an embossing in paper.

[@joncalon7508]

Digital printer here myself. I suspect the reason they're diecut out instead of cut with a guillotine cutter is that it's the thickness and likely softness of the paper. Even a false clamp and cutting pressure down to as low as the cutter will go would likely flatten the paper just too much. I am surprised however at the fact that if these are being diecut out, why not put a neat shape on them?

[@miketheprintman]

@@joncalon7508 I agree. The paper looks more like cotton, so it would probably damage the embossing, even on super low clamp pressure.

[@1blendercraft1]

This looks amazing

[@Fatima.Creates]

Thank you for this video, isn't there a technique to emboss a detail on a card without showing to the other face of it, I mean emboss to one face without the deboss?

[@sinlokemp]

Lovely!

[@lady_icarus]

This is so cool!!! 🤩🤩🤩

[@miketheprintman]

It's funny how those Heidelberg Windmills are like retro nowadays. You can do some really high quality work on those presses. Love your videos and this one is an absolutely beautiful example of how skill and patience can produce a vibrant and beautiful print.

[@maxpius2485]

ive missed yall so much!

[@joncalon7508]

Welcome back! One question is how do you keep the inking cylinders from completely blending the colours together and ruining the gradients? Or is it a case of run the cards as quickly as you can without that happening?

[@TheaterGeek2007]

You're back!!

[@linseybfields]

as a new printer i always love to see your videos! i just rescued a windmill press but don't have it up and running yet. i'm new and had no idea that i would be able to emboss on it. may i ask where you get the plates made, or if you do the platemaking yourselves could you share that process in a video sometime?

[@pdan3783]

Owosso Graphics in Owosso MI would be a good choice for dies and plates.

[@sscaustic]

are you using oil or rubber based inks? and which do you prefer to use?

[@nanogear164]

Where do you make the embossing stamps?

[@DStoryOf]

Hope you don't mind me asking, what is the model of this letter press?

[@andraslippai3169]

The print is wonderfull. btw.: If I were you I'd take the rings off while working with the printing machine, it's not nice when the ring gets stuck and rips your finger off.

[@southafrica73]

Yup!

[@Wacked]

That gradient is not how I expected a gradient being made. So much easier than my brain was telling me.

[@Daral1Da]

عالی ❤️❤️

[@fishfishfishfishfishfish]

New jukebox print video??!?!?!

[@bluelightalarm]

Really interesting to see the process but there is SO MUCH waste material!

[@kevinglennon2370]

The issue is that this is a wonderful Heidelberg letterpress Platen, it is an industrial machine used for typical industrial sizes of up to 10” x 15” (from recollection). The young lady here, is using a different method of using brass / zinc metal printing plates rather that the lead movable type that the machine was originally designed for. The cost of the plates is expensive and the set-up of more than 1 image up, adds to registration and colour consistency issues. The extra card size is required to allow the material to be fed into this machine. Business cards are not what this machine was typically used for, so frankly, yes there is some waste, but it is part of the process and printer do recycle all their guillotine cut off material to make more paper. So in reality very little is wasted. I am most delighted to see a Heidelberg Platen being used in this way by a young and very skilled lady of most recent generation. May these skills long continue! Love it! ❤

[@barrypoontang]

Its been so long since the last video im feeling like a bitter ex, angry but cant look away...

[@bigoper]

So much paper is wasted... what a shame.

[@jasonstahl1327]

Are the copper plates you’re using a standard deep impression .060”