These pictures show the four samples that were entered for the 2009 Print Week Awards, for which Piccolo Press has been short-listed.
The pictures show the images of the three samples and also the dies and presses used to create them.
Piccolo Press and Team
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Sample 1: Order of Service - Letterpress two colour
Note close register and sculpture |
Sample 1: Order of Service - Detail
Shows sculpture and fine detail that can be obtained by letterpress onto a soft card. |
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Sample 1: Order of Service - Sideway Shot
Notice fine detail in church window and sculptured effect of the stone window frames |
Sample 2: Letterpress Invitation with blind embossed border
This photo clearly shows the crisp indent of the text against the raised blind embossing of the border and names |
Sample 2: Letterpress and Blind Embossed Invitation - Detail
Showing detail from within border of letterpress printing and blind embossing |
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Letterpress printer prepares the block in the chase, on the stone
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Heidelberg Platen for printing Letterpress
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Sample 3: Invitation with four colour diestamped Coat of Arms
Invitation was diestamped in four colours with individual hand engraved dies. Cards were then letterpress printed and text raised by thermography. |
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Sample 3: Diestamped Coat of Arms - Greatly enlarged detail
Much enlarged detail of Coat of Arms. Four dies, hand fed in register to make up whole image. |
Sample 3: Slant picture of Fan Makers' Invitation
Note brightness and clarity of Coat of Arms |
Four Colour hand engraved steel dies for Diestamping the Coat of Arms
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Close up of the "bump-up die"
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Sample 4: Diestamped Certificate in Gold, Black and Red with litho printing
Diestamped large Coat of Arms with litho border and text. |
Sample 4: Detail from Dalvey Coat of Arms
A greatly enlarged image showing raised relief of the Coat of Arms |
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Sample 4: Four hand engraved dies - Red - Black - Gold - Bump-Up
Note depth of deep die to give maximym raised effect from "bump-up" |
Waite & Saville Diestamping Press
A beautiful press, made in Otley about fifty years ago. |
Feeding the sheet into the die press.
Note hand feeding and attention to detail needed to obtain exact register with each of four dies! |
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