Printing is in our blood kind of like design is in yours. With our fleet of seven Heidelberg presses we offer traditional letterpress printing, offset printing, or a combination of the two. If you’re into it our skilled team will work with you to add custom touches like engraving, foil stamping, embossing, duplexing, or edge painting. We’re already reaching for our printing aprons…
Printing
Capabilities
Letterpress
There’s nothing like traditional letterpress, combined with luxurious papers. We don our aprons daily and celebrate the refinement and artistry of this time-honored print method – matching inks from the pantone color system and printing from photopolymer plates made right here in the shop.
Offset
Our Heidelberg offset press is precisely the right choice for any design that requires clean, saturated coverage. This workhorse lays down thick, rich, and pure floods of color. It's also the perfect solution when you're looking for a fusion of offset and letterpress. Not to show off (ahem), but we specialize in running spot-color floods with tight reverses on specialty papers up to 179#. That’s heav-y.
Embossing
Elevate your image. Embossing offers several ways to physically raise your image – on several levels. Perhaps your design is just looking for a single-level emboss. Or maybe it's an intricate sculptural emboss that is sure to make your design pop. We offer either a blind emboss (where your image is the same color as your paper) or a registered emboss (where we print your image and then emboss it on a separate pass).
Debossing
A deboss on a heavier textured paper delivers the best results and allows us to add nuance to your piece. We can help you with either a subtle or deep impression. And the addition of a little ink to the plate can help to enhance the impression and your design. If you're debossing on a lighter paper we also recommend a counter for your die to ensure crisp clean edges. Copper, magnesium, or photopolymer plates work well with this process.
Engraving
This centuries-old process is long associated with distinction and prestige. Engraving begins with the image being etched out of a die much like intaglio. The die is then mounted with a counter on our die-stamping press, filled with ink, then with tremendous pressure (up to 4000psi) is stamped onto hand-fed paper. The engraved image sits on top of the paper, rendering rich color & fine lines.
Engraved printing includes business cards, corporate and social stationery, wedding invitations, and security documents.
Foil Stamping
Foil stamping provides the truest color-on-color printing when you’re designing with colored paper. We offer a broad array of vibrant pigments and metallic colors to create the perfect color contrast in your design. Using a light impression to transfer your design to the foil leaf, our pre-heated, etched copper plates are the way to go.
Finishing
Our services don’t end at the printing press. They wrap up in bindery; with the help of thoughtful post trims you’ll witness tape gun wizardry and zealous wrapping practices, assuring your project is wrapped up, packaged up, and shipped out on time.
Mix it up
Letterpress
Project_Danielle & Paul
Process_Letterpress
Designer_ Kate Gabriel
Paper_220# Crane’s Lettra ecru white cover
Letterpress
Project_Theo Classic Library
Process_Letterpress
Designer_Theo Chocolate
Paper_100# Cougar Opaque white smooth cover
Letterpress
Project_Olsen Violins
Process_Letterpress
Designer_Olsen Violins
Paper_120# Eames Painting Eames white vellum cover
Offset
Project_The Art Stable
Process_Offset
Designer_Colvio
Paper_130# Classic Crest solar white smooth cover
Offset
Project_Emily & John
Process_Offset/Score
Designer_Jessica McCarty
Paper_100# Pop-Tone cover
Offset
Project_WWRE
Process_Offset
Designer_
Paper_
Offset
Project_Wintr
Process_Offset/Letterpress/Deboss
Designer_Turnstyle
Paper_100# Superfine ultrawhite eggshell cover / 100# Pop-Tone cover triplexed
Embossing
Project_Jamie Joseph
Process_Foil/Emboss/Diecut
Designer_Liz Petrella
Paper_100# Superfine white eggshell cover
Embossing
Project_Louboutin
Process_Offset/Foil/Emboss
Designer_Nordstrom
Paper_100# Curious Skin black cover / 80# Curious Metallics olive text duplexed
Embossing
Project_Dumas Station
Process_Offset/Letterpress/Foil/Emboss/Kisscut
Designer_Patronus
Paper_60# Starliner novelty offset uncoated label
Embossing
Project_Fran's
Process_Foil/Emboss
Designer_Heckler Associates
Paper_120# Eames Painting Eames white vellum cover
Embossing
Project_Palomino
Process_Letterpress/Emboss/Diecut
Designer_Superbig
Paper_140# Holyoke antique cover
Debossing
Project_Stefanie & William
Process_Letterpress/Deboss
Designer_Stefanie Choi
Paper_179# Crane pearl white cover
Debossing
Project_James Beard Menu
Process_Letterpress/Deboss
Designer_Bridget Hostert
Paper_118# Savoy natural white cover
Debossing
Project_Nordstrom Poncho
Process_Letterpress/Deboss
Designer_Nordstrom
Paper_236# Savoy bright white cover
Debossing
Project_General Assembly
Process_Offset/Letterpress
Designer_Design Commission
Paper_179# Crane pearl white cover
Debossing
Project_Geoengingeers
Process_Letterpress/Deboss
Designer_GeoEngineers
Paper_118# Savoy brilliant white cover
Foil Stamping
Project_Great Jones Home
Process_Offset/Foil/Diecut
Designer_Natalie Eden
Paper_118# Savoy natural white cover
Foil Stamping
Project_Gregory Henn
Process_Foil
Designer_Ryan Clark
Paper_141# Curious Skin black cover duplexed
Foil Stamping
Project_Nordstom Men Style
Process_Offset/Foil/Diecut
Designer_Nordstrom
Paper_105# Esse pearlized white textured cover
Foil Stamping
Project_Show Cobra
Process_Letterpress/Foil
Designer_Italic
Paper_100# Pop-Tone lemon drop & black licorice covers duplexed
Foil Stamping
Project_Wayzgoose2011
Process_Letterpress/Foil/Diecut
Designer_SVC
Paper_236# Savoy natural white cover
Die Cut
Project_Wazygoose
Process_Foil/Letterpress/Diecut
Designer_SVC
Paper_236# Savoy natural white cover
Die Cut
Project_AAC
Process_Foil/Diecut
Designer_Noah Kaarbo
Paper_130# Classic Crest epic black cover duplexed
Die Cut
Project_Jill Bucy Skincare
Process_Letterpress/Diecut
Designer_Alkemi Design
Paper_134# Crane pearl white cover
Die Cut
Project_Steven Barrett
Process_Letterpress/Diecut
Designer_Kristen Mullin Bakken
Paper_220# Crane’s Lettra fluorescent white cover
Die Cut
Project_Dry Soda Coaster
Process_Letterpress/Diecut
Designer_Turnstyle
Paper_.029 Ahlstrom
Printing outside
the box
Woodinville Whiskey Cigar Labels
Last month we teamed up with David Cole Creative to create a run of fine cigar labels for Woodinville Whiskey Co. ...
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