Upload your design.
Have a designer already? An old family invitation you want re-set? A Pinterest screenshot we can clean up? Send us what you have. We'll prep it for the press, send a free proof, and run it on cotton.
- A designer cleans up the file before press — bleeds, scaling, kerning
- Free digital proof, no card up front
- Plate-made, typeset, pressed, and checked in our shop
- Ships flat in 5–7 days from proof approval
Start from a template.
Pre-sized to our trim and bleed, with guides for safe area and registration. Free to download. Open in Illustrator, InDesign, or any vector PDF editor.
Letterpress is unforgiving — here's the cheat sheet.
Five rules cover ninety percent of files we have to send back. Read these and yours will sail through.
Vector, ideally
Send a vector PDF, AI, or EPS. Raster files work too if they're at least 600 DPI at final size — but vector lets us scale and pull a clean plate.
Outline your fonts
Convert all type to outlines (or paths) before exporting. We won't have your font installed and we don't want to guess at substitutes.
One color per plate
Each ink color on the press is a separate plate. If you want two colors, make two layers in the file — black for plate one, a spot color for plate two.
Bleed and safe area
Extend backgrounds 0.125″ past the trim, and keep all type and important detail at least 0.25″ inside the trim. Our templates draw both lines for you.
Mind the line weight
Anything thinner than 0.5pt risks breaking up. Anything finer than 6pt type may fill in. We'll flag concerns on the proof, but designing within these helps.
Balance the line weight
Keep stroke weights consistent across the design. Mixing very thin hairlines with heavy solids on the same plate forces a compromise on press — one inks accurately, the other won't. Even, balanced weights ink the most accurately.