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Hooley, Reception Invitation


My first print project on my new letterpress! I printed reception invitations for my wife and myself. I didn’t think it would be too difficult, so I picked a time-sensitive design that my wife was eager to have perfect. The marriage has remained intact, despite choosing this as my experimental first run.

I’d never run a table top platen before this. I was a little discouraged right off the bat because the rollers were over-inking the plate in non-raised areas. After an hour of monkeying around and reading some posts on Briar Press, I found some great advice and attached masking tape to the edges of the chase bed to raise the rollers to the perfect height.

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Part of my need for the tape comes from using Boxcar plates without a Boxcar base. I’m using a glued-together set of particle board instead. I was pretty upset at first, not being able to get a solid inking, so I did a little drinking of some cheap, horrible beer, aka Budweiser.

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Once I had the tape in place, and my anger sated, the prints came fast. I need to figure something else out for drying my prints though:

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In the end I was able to get a sharp print and nice imprint.

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