best fake letterpress
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- svenreed
question: anyone know of the best way to emulate letterpress printing? basically cheaper, but I dont want to sacrifice quality of printing. a client wants the effect but i have no background in this specific style of printing, just offset and digital, call me new or whatever, sorryyy.
i was thinking, thermography would be best, since its short run stationary. any insight on what weight stock would take to this best?
thanks in advance!
- iluvsoul0
this is the closest way to faking it i've found.
- epigraph0
Thermo is raised, so it most closely resembles engraved printing. It doesn't look like letterpress at all. imho looks like crap in most cases, though I have seen it used well. You can thremo any weight really....
I used to work at a place that would hot stamp text with a tint foil, then hit it again without foil to deboss it. Looked really good, but prob not any cheaper.
If they want the look, theyre gonna have to pay for it. On the upside once you have the plates made you can use em over again when you need more printed.
- uncle_helv0
I agree thermo will look nothing like letterpress... infact epigraph makes total sense, so what he said!
- Spookytim0
Couldn't you just pick some suitable letterpressesque fontyfaces, layout the graphics, take it into Photoshop and dodge out some wood grain plus round off sharp corners... then have it printed and also de-bossed into the stock as well? You could even slightly mis-align a few letters in the layout.
- kinross0
There is a wee press in Scotland called Piccolo - might be worht haviong a look as they are not as expencive as you might think. Depends what you after though. Also you will see what weight works best.