Monday, December 6, 2010

Polymer plate printing on the letterpress!

Here are two places where you can expose digital files to polymer plate and then print on the letterpress. It can be text, image or both and is a photo-reliefe process much like linocut or woodcut, but exposed digitally and printed. Of course you can also expose and develop your polymer plates here as we have the material, but sending it out gives better (and more expensive) results.

Boxcar Press in NYC (by mail)

or

That Sky Blue in Montreal

The difference between the two is that boxcar has been doing this much longer and are the known experts in this technique. They can advise you by email what will work and how. They are more expensive and you have to factor in shipping. Service is still pretty fast.

That Sky Blue, is right here in Montreal and offer a student discount, I believe.