We were excited to see the Boxcar Base spotted in some cool places in the blog world lately:
*at Heart Fish, who used our base and plates in a letterpress class she’s taking (the photo on this post is from Heart Fish’s blog — a nice picture of our printing plates in action!)
*check out Marin Press, who used our base and plates to print invitations to “A Most Excellent Midwinter’s Feast,” hosted by the Ottawa Chapter of Canadian Organic Growers to promote their Growing Up Organic Project (how cool is that!);
*Lead Graffiti, who used our plates to letterpress certificates for the Art Directors Club of New York Grandmasters Award ceremony.
Thanks to you all for the Boxcar shout outs! Go letterpress!

Letterpress sure makes beautiful wedding invitations — but we love when letterpress uses its cast iron muscle for the political realm too. We fell in love with this broadside when browsing on Springtide Press’s web site, and we were super excited to learn that our Boxcar Base and Boxcar plates helped out in the printing. It features a quote from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, champion of women’s voting and civil rights. Here is what Jessica from Springtide Press had to say about the letterpress printing:
“Boxcar base and plates and platemaker and adhesive all done here! Chandler O’Leary is the talent portion of the project–she did all the handlettering then it was scanned and printed. We used 94FL plates on the largest base in my Vandercook Universal 1. The file was output as one plate and we used the “puzzle piece” technique to print in two colors. The paper is a fairly new recycled sheet made from 100% cotton rag.”

If you need more reasons to vote, check out Good Magazine’s 1,565 reasons to vote in their latest issue.

We were thrilled to see letterpress printing on the COVER of this month’s Real Simple, as well more letterpress inside the issue in a multi-spread page story about giving thanks. We got even more excited when we learned that our friends at Sesame Letterpress did the printing (with the help of Boxcar plates & the Boxcar Press). What great letterpress love! We asked Breck Hostetter to give us the scoop about printing for Real Simple, and this is what she told us:

“We used Boxcar’s K95 plates mounted on our Boxcar base (we’ve had this for so long that I don’t remember which one it is). We had a couple weeks to plan for the project and select the papers and ink color but the artwork came at the last minute. Real Simple provided us with the text and we used our own borders to design the cards. The magazine wanted a mix of cards with and without borders to consider when doing the photo shoot. So we printed each card with the border and text on a couple different papers and then we removed the plate from the base, cut the border off the plate and printed the plate with just the text on the papers. Thanks to the adhesive backed polymer plates, this was doable. We had to rely on Boxcar’s dependable 1 day turn around processing and UPS’s overnight shipping. We printed everything on our Golding Jobber. We have a Vandercook and Heidelberg but we do 95% of our jobs on the Golding and have just increased our fleet to include a couple Golding Pearls….”

Great work, Sesame Letterpress! The printing looks awesome - crisp, clear, deep, and gorgeous.

Victoria Wilder from Two Letter Press in Saint Helena, CA, sent us the sweetest California thank you wine for helping her with her rush platemaking orders. It absolutely made our week over here. Thanks, Victoria! Our letterpress customers are honestly the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Here’s the Boxcar platemaking team with the wine.