Easy DIY Letterpress technique

We post videos daily online and many of our viewers like to tell us when it is their birthday. Well, this is our way of wishing you all a happy birthday! In this video, Jared letterpress printed a classy birthday greeting card using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. The ink is a mix of rhodamine red and opaque white to make pink rubber base ink and the type font is 24 point Engravers Old English. The type reads, “Have a classy birthday!” The electrotype (copy of a woodcut) of the c

The biggest game of the year is this Sunday between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium. To avoid discussing the trademarked name of the event, we took a different approach for our video. In honor of the big game, Howard letterpress printed an electrotype of an owl from the Lewis Winter Collection that was made in the 1890s. The text below states, “Superb Owl” and it was typeset in 60 point Cheltenham Bold font. This was printed with black rubber base ink using ou