The Market at the Old American Can Factory
This Sunday from 11am–6pm Swayspace will be participating in The Market at the Old American Can Factory. We will be selling sets of our antique handset Thank You stationery as well as custom-printing-while-you-wait stationery.
- Set of 6 folded Thank You notes – $15
- Set of 20 flat customized notecards – $40
- Set of 20 folded custom notecards – $45
Here are more details and directions to our building. Come on by and support Brooklyn craft and manufacture!
Crazy Four Color Dither Update
the final print, not trimmed
Status = All pau!
('Pau' [pronounced pow] is a Hawaiian word for done or finished. I think there's something more ebullient about that word than just saying 'it's done')
All the stages/layers lined up
registration marks
if you look closely the 0 is slightly raised since it's knocked out of the magenta plate, but the black has got a deep impression which makes for a really nice tactile quality.
some lovely ghosted type
The final invite with envelope
Excuse my letters, but I just have to say they're pretty f'n sweet.
Fresh Printing: Letterpress Crazy Four Color Dither
Yes, that's right, I said dither. and letterpress and four color.
Crazy?
Yeah, I think I mentioned that too.
Ben, Patrick and John start printing the yellow and cyan plates...and Willy's elbow
On Friday, the print shop got started by running the two Vandercooks (that's the sp 20 on the right with cyan and the sp 15 on the left with yellow) which was also a first for the shop as we've just started tinkering with getting the sp 15 running. Here's a little photo rundown of the action so far:
The first color, cyan, inked and ready to print
Since we haven't tried this CMYK process with the presses, we tried to get a better estimate of the final prints by printing out color samples on the Ink Jet printer. We even ran those sheets through four times to simulate the entire CMYK process.
Patrick compares the Ink Jet print out to the pulled yellow proof
cyan + yellow = green
remember the 'dither' bit? instead of using a halftone screen to make the different plates and pick up the details, we used a diffusion dither, a sort of random dot pattern, which results in some really nice textures and overlays on the colors
Two down, two to go
here's a proof of the third color, magenta. we printed the yellow and cyan first so that we could adjust the color of the green better.
Today John is printing the magenta
The three individual layers
Look at that, Bon A Tirer
BAT as I have learned means Bon A Tirer which is an old school printing world way of approving a final proof saying it's "Good to Pull"
The type here is knocked out of the magenta layer letting the cyan and yellow show through
the dithering also makes for a lovely soft focus look
looks like they went to town trying out different color combinations
so far so good on the crazy-awesome experimenting, check back for a follow up on the final piece!
BMI, BackStory, Hall & Partners Health, and SMP projects
We are happy to share some projects that we added to our website today. Click to see more information and images.
BMI Advertisements (We already mentioned this, but have added a better photo to the portfolio.)
