Job Title: Letterpress printer
Describe what you do at Boxcar Press in 10 words: Operate wonderful, majestic, finicky, retro Heidelberg letterpress glory and other hats.
Essential Q&A with Carrie V., letterpress printer
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Boxcar Baby dresses up for Halloween
We wanted to dress the Boxcar Baby up as a letterpress, but we couldn’t decide: Vandercook or C&P? C&P or Vandercook? Heidelberg Cylinder? Vandercook? The penguin costume was our compromise.
Boxcar Press 2nd annual company party
Thanks to Carol, our operations manager, for hosting! It was the perfect fall day for family & friends….
Letterpress story time for boys and girls
Our friend and fellow book lover Amanda recently gave us this ultra cool picture book: Johann Gutenberg and the Amazing Printing Press
A little letterpress…
Something letterpress sweet (with a really nice solid, I have to say!) from our print shop.
Letterpress in the news: Plum Blossom Press
One of Boxcar’s platemaking customers, Plum Blossom Press, had this sweet article in South Shore Weekly featuring their new letterpress business. We always love when letterpress gets into the mainstream media. Go letterpress!
A very beautiful letterpress postcard from Anagram Press
This postcard is honestly one of the prettiest things we’ve ever found in our mailbox….It's such a great example of why letterpress is the best printing method ever. Designed and letterpress printed by Chandler O'Leary of Anagram Press . For these postcards, Chandler used the Boxcar Base and our 94FL plates. She writes, "I've been using Boxcar plates for 5 years now, and I love them—and the Base is a life-saver for crazy registration!" Thanks, Chandler! Please keep us on your mailing list!
we love edge-painting things
We fell in love with edge painting a year or two ago — it’s such a cool way to add a second or third color to a printed piece, and you can still pantone match the edge color (we mix edge-painting inks by hand, and then apply by hand too). We flat printed these invitations for Talbots announcing their Spring 2009 collection, and then we did the edge painting too — we love the BRIGHT PINK edge painting they chose. They added the embossed pattern on their end. Printed on our cotton paper.
Mandarin Oriental Hotel letterpress invitation
This is a save the date we letterpress printed for Mandarin Oriental Hotel’s new location in Boston. We flat printed the liners on our offset press in a pattern that mirrored the blind deboss of the save the date. There was rumor that the actual invitations were going to be cut in stone (!).
Recycle your letterpress plates at CBA (NYC)
Last month, Boxcar Press launched BPPPPRP, a photopolymer plate recycling program to help keep letterpress plates out of landfills. We’re now working to set up drop boxes at several book arts centers across the country, so plates used by the centers’ students & members can be collected and recycled. Thank you to Sarah Nichols, the program manager at Center for Book Arts (CBA), for setting up a box for photopolymer plate recycling last week at CBA. The box is in the vicinity of CBA’s presses, and plates will be collected and sent to Boxcar Press every so often for recycling. Way to go, CBA!