Holly "Merry Merry" card
Animals Announcements Christmas printing

A Merry, Merry Printing Session

Since the Bay Area has been sheltering-in-place since mid-March, some of our reprints have had to be put on hold. At first, only essential businesses could be open, and much of our reprints were left on the table that week, mid-print. Everyone in non-essential businesses in the Bay Area retreated to their homes, and businesses …

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Magenta layer on Ice Plant cards
Announcements printing

Kim’s Printing Marathon

There was a printing marathon at Painted Tongue Press last weekend! Three titles were completely out of stock and two were needed to fill orders. Since red was on the press last, and it’s easier to clean the press and move from a similar color, I started with the magenta layer of the Ice Plant …

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Poppy card printing
Announcements Mother's Day printing Spring

Poppy Printing

Reprinting the Icelandic Poppy card on the Heidelberg windmill press – the card has three variations: birthday, Mother’s Day, and blank, and each requires a different plate for the black ink layer. The press has a mechanism to feed the paper into the press and can get really tight registration on the printed image.   …

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Liz printing on the Vandercook
printing

A Day in the Studio

A busy day at Painted Tongue Studios! Liz prints “Right to Remain Human” wallet cards. Meanwhile Mitsuko gets together a large card order. Our brilliant printer Bettina works on the Heidelberg to print cards; this is the first color pull of the Fig card. And Kim edits photos of our card line to put up …

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