Letterpress
“Letterpress” can mean different things to different people. We use it here in a broad sense to refer to prints created by a relief printing process using vintage presses designed originally to print from metal and wood type. Historically it was used almost exclusively on paper, but at I AM HERE CARDS we also print on cloth to make beautiful and useful kitchen towels.
Maps
Many maps are available in Letterpress. These are hand-drawn maps that are printed on vintage Letterpress machines. The cards are printed on motorized platen presses. I work on two different ones, one is a Chandler and Price machine built in 1923; the other is a Peerless press dating to the late 1800’s. The larger pieces are printed on a Vandercook 03 sign press dating from the 1930’s, or a Challenge 15MP built in 1964.
tea/kitchen towels
These are printed one-at-a-time on a vintage Vandercook 03 sign press built in 1935 from either metal or polymer printing plates.
prints and Posters
These are printed on a vintage Vandercook 03 sign press. They are printed from various materials, including metal type, wooden type, hand-carved block made from wood or “Sintra”, a synthetic material, or from polymer plates. All are printed with archival inks on sturdy cardstock made in the U.S.A.
other cards, etc.
