How a professional letterpress printer makes wedding invitations

• Inky Press is a letterpress printer specializing in wedding invitations and business cards.
• Chelsea Cuykendall designs each one with the client and makes them by hand.
• She has to switch out each piece and maintain a steady rhythm with her foot on the treadle

The following is a transcript of the video.

How a professional letterpress printer makes wedding invitations. Chelsea Cuykendall specializes in letterpress printing. The technique creates imprinted text and images. To start making the design, a letterpress plate is made. This is called a photopolymer. Put simply, it's a stamp made from a resin...Used to ink the designs onto the paper. Mixing the ink color is next. Chelsea typically mixes three or four inks to get the desired color. Then the paper is cut to size. She inks up the press to get started. To keep printing continuously, she has to multitask...Switching out each piece of paper and maintaining a steady beat on the treadle.