A photopolymer plate mounted on our Boxcar base.
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 12:55 p.m.
A photopolymer plate mounted on our Boxcar base.
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 12:55 p.m.
Here is Jake’s letterpress (Heidelberg Windmill Red Ball 10 x 15) sitting quietly while he is home with his family and brand new baby girl. Congratulations, Jake & Chellsea!
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 2:07 p.m.
This is the cutter that Becky uses to trim large parent sheets into smaller pieces that the printing presses will run.
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 2:22 p.m.
Electric purple ink swirled on table waiting to be pressed into a cushy paper bed.
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 11:01 a.m.
Some of our Windmills primed and ready for printing!
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 1:06 p.m.
Heidelberg Windmill,
You are a glorious workhorse!
With you, so many wonderful things can be letterpressed & die cut & scored.
I love you, windmill! And all of the other presses too!
by Carrie Valenzuela, letterpress printer. 11:18 a.m.
We hope you enjoy this new movie of Boxcar Press’s printshop, beautifully filmed and edited last week by Daylight Blue Media. Music is by local composer Marc Mellits.
Last Friday night we packed up and headed out for a night of bowling. There were color-coordinated shirts, lots of trash talk, fake mustaches and ample fun to be had for all. With catchy team names like Gutter Down and Split Happens, we brought our finest bowling skills to show up the local competition.
The rumors are true. Carrie – the most senior member of our printing team – can often be found sporting a cape after hours. Perhaps not coincidentally, she can also be spotted hanging out with Cathy, our esteemed platemaking account manager, on a regular basis. Cool people tend to hang out together, we’re told. (Cool people? Super heroes? You be the judge.)
Two newer members of our team, graphic designer Racheal and client coordinator Erica, survive their first Boxcar Press outing! Turns out, Racheal is a rockstar bowler. (Former varsity bowling team rockstar. For real.)
All in all, we enjoyed a rather cheerful night of innocent debauchery complete with one failed Orangemen attempt at beating UConn in OT in the Big East and a darts showdown to end all showdowns. Bowl on!
Title: PMS 190U
Photographer: Cyd, letterpress marketer
Medium: iPhone
@ Boxcar since: 2009
Long live letterpress, Kim Namjoon, and learning. -RAM
As we planned our recent open studio event we commissioned a piece of original artwork from the Boxcar Toddler to be printed on letterpress coasters for our visitors. The result? Pure brilliance. But don’t take our word for it, take a look for yourself – the floor plan of our new print shop according to the Boxcar Toddler: