Tinta prensada en el papel.

One plate per colour, one pass per colour, and the press is slow: this is the technique where you feel the hour rate. It wants a soft, bulky, uncoated sheet; the thicker and softer the stock, the deeper the bite it will take without cracking. Heavy solid coverage is the enemy: large flat areas show mottling and fight the impression, so letterpress rewards line work, type and restraint. Two colours means registration, and hairlines that straddle two plates are where jobs go wrong.

Letterpress inks are translucent. A light ink on a dark sheet will not read: it sinks toward the paper colour. White type on black stock is a WHITE FOIL STAMP, not “white letterpress”, and calling it letterpress is how customers end up disappointed at proof. On any non-white sheet, expect the ink to shift toward the paper's own colour.

Regla mínima

0.15 mm (0.4 pt)

0,3 mm en negativo

Texto mínimo, positivo

7 pt

Texto mínimo, en negativo

10 pt

Pasadas de color

1 plancha / color

Máxima profundidad

600 gsm+

Normalmente duplexado