Letterpress printing with a large brayer.

Letterpress printing one of the oldest cuts in our museum

Can we letterpress print with more than one ink color with our Washington hand press? In this video, Jared letterpress prints the word “NO” showing that 6 ink colors is possible. The order from left to right in the galley tray at the beginning is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Some of the inks are oil base and some are rubber base. This is the largest wood type that we have in our print shop exhibit at the Sacramento History Museum. #no #art #SacHistoryMuseum #sacramento #museum #

The new Betterpress Letterpress machine is AMAZING for cardmaking!❤️ Follow @inklipse for more crafting inspiration. Here I used the Butterfly Wishes design plate and inked it up with black Betterpress ink. This ink sticks well to the plates and will help you get a great image! Then, place the cardstock on and run it through the Platinum die-cutting Machine. This presses the image into the cardstock to get great stamping and letterpress texture.🙌🏻 To finish it off, I used the coordinating die-

Letterpress Printing for History Camp

What is Letterpress?