Letterpress Business Card Printing with 5 Pantone Colors!

Join us for a behind the scenes look at how we create a 5 color letterpress business card design from start to finish! We bring you to the center of the action in our letterpress department at Jukebox.

The Giveaway is now over! Thank you to everyone who shared their favorite Pantone Color!

We'll be showing you a step-by-step tutorial on how we bring a multi-colored illustration to life. From setting up our letterpress, mixing inks, trimming paper, and matching perfect registration, you can see it all in this latest tutorial video. Be sure to watch through the whole video as we talk about the importance of the Pantone matching system and how it applies to making the most vibrant ink colors for our printing.
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Artwork Designed by:

[Vitalstatistix]

*Everyone is in awe of the letterpress... But that paper cutter in the end... Jesus it cut the whole stack like a hot knife through butter*

[daramjie]

no idea how youtube decided to recommend this video but I ain’t complaining

[barfymann]

With a business-card like that, I'd never want to just hand one out. "Here, take a piece of art".

[JS-DeepStar]

My father was a Heidelberg Original Letterpress large format Pressman for 46 years. He passed away in March 2019 and It gives my heart joy to see this is not a lost art. Thanks for sharing.

[evindrews]

That is the most beautiful business card I have ever seen.

[imaginationscene]

Look at that subtle off-white coloring. the tasteful thickness of it. OMG it even has a crocodile. 😮

[SSZaris]

Glad to see the profession hasn't been completely forgotten in this age of digital print. I was a Master Tradesman Printer and got pushed out by digital that could be run by nearly anyone. Ran a Komori 428, 528, GTO 52, GTO 48, Platen, and most of the finishing machines. Mixing ink was one of my favorite things to do. Sealing was a pain because the boss never got the UV fixed and the machines didn't have a powder spray. Literally had to remove every sheet by hand as it ran. I've got some horror stories about that place. Glad that company went under...

[jibguy]

In 1970 while in 10th grade, I had to learn the California Job Case, then spent the rest of high school on a letterpress. I’m happy you guys are keeping a lost art alive.

[bigira]

If someone gave me their business and it looked like this i will literally frame it

[userador]

Beautiful! These business cards look like fine art prints.

[dollsofvalley]

Business card is so beautiful and memorable, it doesn’t require contact information. Me as I’m handing over my business card... “Here just take this and remember me by it!”

[DobeMom]

When I was a child (way back in the 60's) my dad used to service these printers. I remember him coming home talking about it. I had no idea there was so much artistry involved in using these printers. Just beautiful. Oh how I miss the old days.

[sgtmian]

me: wow, this looks so complicated


him: this is a simplified version

[bodean]

Love this video. I was a Pressman for 28 years and watching this old Heidelberg run just never gets old. A few years back I needed some business cards printed and Jukebox was the only place I wanted to do the job simply because I was able to choose the the offset press versus standard digital that everyone is going to these days. I appreciate the old school way of printing with real presses you can actually work on like a muscle car. For me that old Heidelberg is like an old vinyl record vs a new CD, they both play the same song but the record sounds oh so sweet. Thanks for the video, and Ill be ordering more business cards soon. 👍🏼 Color - Dutch Fireball

[michaelduke]

Those Heidelberg presses never die. Letterpress with embossing is so classy.

[YelleDee]

My pop still owns that same letterpress machine, It's like a jigsaw puzzle when he mounts that plate he knows exactly what he needed to fit and tighten them, he still uses this for embossed and impressions on wedding invitation and also scroll like parchment paper wedding invites, and also for hardbound book binding, it's beautiful.

[shivaargula]

I would like to see how the printing plates are made.

[RayfieldA]

This video really makes me appreciate how much hard work goes into making a card like that! Although I'd like a business card like that, it must be very expensive because of such a process. Great video!

[catlover]

true craftmanship. if i asked someone to make these cards, i would hope they'd never throw them away.

[Elsren]

Him: You can clearly see how this plate is misaligned.
Me, sweating: s-sure, yeah