The Save The Date Cards printer had a busy evening carefully producing customers orders. Printing these cards is a strangely old fashioned process for such modern looking cards., more a traditional craft than might be expected. Each print run requires it’s own individual block to be mounted and aligned to the cards, then tested and adjusted till correct.  The desk top print machine itself appears to have been hewn from a single ingot of steel and is so heavy it takes two people to lift or move it. Each card requiring a change of print colour involves physically removing one foil from the machine, then lacing a new foil round the various rollers and drums to a take up spool behind. The number of different types of tape involved in the process includes heat sensitive tape for mounting the blocks and assorted tapes for minor, but necessary odd functions. It’s a far cry from using your computers ink jet printer, but we feel it’s worth the extra effort to produce such impressive cards.

A frosted save the date card