Letterpress

Letterpress – distinctive printing with character and style

Back to basics – with letterpress, you can create elegant, high-quality printed products using the traditional technique pioneered by Johannes Gutenberg, who pressed type onto paper to create both embossing and printing. Old-fashioned? Quite the opposite – letterpress is the perfect way to create modern retro designs. 

Heavyweight paper and a print finish that the recipient can literally feel to the touch – with letterpress, you make a statement that symbolises quality and a love of craftsmanship. Whether it’s promotional or office stationery – have your high-quality business stationery produced.

druck.at can bring your letterpress project to life

Thanks to our letterpress machine, we can emboss and print simultaneously, thereby creating the letterpress effect. However, not every design is suitable for letterpress printing. druck.at provides a checklist to show you what matters when it comes to letterpress:

Checklist for your letterpress design:

1. Colours

With 4-colour printing, we can reproduce any colour on your letterpress product.

2. Embossing

Embossing is applied to one side after the colour print has been applied. You can decide for yourself which elements are to be embossed.

3. Shapes

Letterpress works best with fine details. With large-scale designs, however, the elegant and delicate effect of letterpress is lost and the paper may warp. You should therefore use small-scale designs and typefaces in your design.

4. Paper

Thick papers with a high grammage are particularly suitable for letterpress printing, as this really brings out the best in the embossing.

5. Formats

The platen press can be used to print formats up to a maximum size of A4 (non-bleed).

Get all the information at a glance

Would you like to find out more about the process involved in designing and producing your letterpress product? As your expert partner, druck.at has compiled all the key information for you in an information sheet. You can then simply order your letterpress product online at druck.at.

Have business cards and other cards produced using letterpress

• Blue (C90 M50 Y0 K0)
• Yellow (C0 M20 Y90 K0)
• Green (C50 M20 Y70 K10)
• Red (C30 M100 Y80 K0)
• Black (C0 M0 Y0 K100)

Discover more products

druck.at offers you a wide range of office and promotional printed materials. Do you need a complete set of business stationery? Then perhaps the Office stationery set We’ve got something for you, including envelopes, stationery and business cards. We’d also be happy to print Blocks, Sash folders or Folder. Also Flyer, Folder and Promotional postcards We can also produce many other printed products for you.