Letterpress has three things about it that are really nice.

1) You make SOMETHING. Concrete. You can hold it. Also nice that the type sticks into the paper.

2) You can do things that are absolutely personal without that much trouble. Honestly, buying a card doesn’t quite do it and an email doesn’t do it at all.

3) The process of both preparing for printing and for the actual printing are nice to do.

We hope some people get involved with Lead Graffiti, learn to use the equipment and then rent some time do do these kinds of projects on their own.

We had been invited to the Melvins for essentially what was Thanksgiving dinner except it was on Saturday. Somewhere in the conversation Rebecca mentioned it would be good to have coasters. So we decided to print them a set of coasters that you can see above.

We hope to start photographing the make-ready when the projects are handset and interesting. This one took about two hours.

You can buy blank coasters which we had done about a month ago. 4″ square is the size of these. These are the thickest ones.

Printed our our Chandler & Price 10 x 15 without any packing.

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