Finally, some success! Of course, still lots of room for improvement but it's something. With LOTS of make-ready and way too much time, I've been able to print first colour of the first 58 of 100 Save the Date cards. Why 58? Well, I bought lots of really lovely textured paper to use, and a few sheets of stuff I thought would be nice to have on hand. The nice stuff (Rives) is actually heaps better and very similar to Crane's Lettra, so I've decided to use up what I had and buy more tomorrow morning.
Seems that all of my problems definetly were the base, and I'll still need to think of a long-term solution, but for now, I'm happy.
Oh, and I bought a cheap corner rounder as well. If I do a lot of rounding, I'll need to buy a better one. I'll be rounding these cards though, it seems to work well with the design.
2 comments:
Hi poppy.. (sorry.. I don't know your real name).
The save the date looking really good. :-)
I just bought a round cornering cutter from this australian website: www.unicorn.net.au.
It's coming this monday, I'll let you know how it is once I receive it.
[stands and applauds]
Welcome to the fiddly, time-sucking world of letterpress! Just when you think you've nutted a problem, another one rears its ugly head. But the results are so worth it.
This is fabbo. And changing paper was a good solution too. Often thick paper is far more forgiving of type/image inconsistencies. And rives is what I'm using at the moment, beautiful to print on.
yay!
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