Bright white for crisp, vibrant color from our rich letterpress inks. Premium 100% Cotton: Luxuriously thick with a soft cotton texture that creates a deep impression-a deluxe paper for letterpress stationery.100% Cotton: A lightly textured cotton paper with a creamy off-white hue and vellum texture this paper creates crisp impressions and vibrant color, and has been developed especially for artists and printmakers.LETTERPRESS PAPERSĪt Minted, our letterpress wedding invitations are available in two different paper options: The invitations are individually hand-printed on antique Heidelberg Windmill presses and every piece is checked by hand to ensure exceptional quality and a luxurious finish. Each invitation utilizes its own letterpress photopolymer plate created from a digital file. Letterpress printing is a true art form and is one of the most beautiful forms of printing.Īt Minted, we continue this centuries-old art form to create beautiful letterpress wedding invitations. This transfer creates an impression (indentation) in the paper, which gives the card a tactile quality and handcrafted feel. Ink is applied to the raised surface and then paper is pressed directly against it to transfer the text and design. Letterpress printing is a form of relief printing, where the text and designs are on a raised surface, such as a plate or metal type (imagine a large rubber stamp, but made with metal or photopolymer). Letterpress is one of the oldest methods of printing, developed during the time of Johannes Gutenberg (inventor of the printing press) in the 15th century.
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