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Dolce Press is the innovation of Alexandra Daley, a design veteran with a passion for all things artistic who hails from Long Island, New York. As a graphic designer, it was only natural for Alex to want to broaden her inspired visions and share them with
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Eye Candy: Cool Letterpress Business Cards
 We printed some very cool letterpress business card designs this week and wanted to share a few of our favorites with you. These three cards are unique in their own way. The first card was printed ...
5×8 Kelsey Excelsior Tabletop Letterpress
 First, we have to apologize for the lack of posts but we have been swamped with print jobs these past few weeks. We have a few exciting posts planned for the next week so stay tuned for more inform...
Kelseys For Sale
Just wanted to let everyone know that all the lead type and wood type has been sold. Thanks to everyone who inquired. Currently at Dolce Press, we are in the process of restoring 2 kelseys; a 5 x 8 an...
Mini Cards
Dolce Press has always done their part to be green but now we have taken it one step further. I find there is so much wasted paper here in the studio so we have decided to use the left over paper...
Lead Type for Sale
This is a set of 36pt and 54pt sans serif lead type (caps only) that we are selling. We are quickly running out of space in the studio and would be happy to see this type go to a good home. Â In the ...
Letterpress Graduation Announcements
This is a letterpress graduation announcement we printed recently for a local Ithaca College student. The design features a simple anchor printed in navy blue (which you may recognize from our wedding...
The more the merrier!
We have been busy today printing a lot of business cards for a startup publication, Knack. Their cards aren’t done yet so we’ll post more specifically about the cards once they are. Unti...
Dandelion Letterpress Wedding Invitation
 We’ve been on a wedding kick as of late and so when close friends of ours told us they were getting married we couldn’t resist letterpress printing their wedding invitation set. They wa...
Retro Flower and Vine Letterpress Invitation
We have a special place in our heart for wedding invitations. These invitations, which we designed and printed, features a retro flower and vine design that is carried throughout the set. The cente...
Monogram Letterpress Wedding Invitations
Grace and Arthur contacted us because they wanted a classic invitation to compliment their wedding, so we put together a simple yet elegant design. The invite features a monogram in chartreuse and tex...
Great Video on Letterpress Printing
The Internet Archive website has a great selection of historical documents and videos, one of which we have highlighted previously on the blog (How to use a composing stick). We just came across this ...
That press is made of what???
Letterpress isn’t all about cast iron presses, in fact there are a wide variety of machines out there. A while back we wrote about a new Adana press that was being manufactured in Japan. So when...
You’re out of this world!
We promised so here it is … We’d like to introduce the first card of many to come in Dolce Press’ new greeting card line. This A2 (4.5″ x 5.25″) sized folded card is ...
More Business Cards?
Here are some samples of business cards we’ve printed in the shop recently. Our house paper is 110# 100% cotton paper but a variety of other stock (texture, weight, color, etc.) is also availabl...
Dampening Paper
On large printed areas, I find it hard to get consistent ink coverage on cotton paper. Sometimes if the image is really large, I break up the plate into 2 pieces which works, but man, what a pain!Â...
Please oil me!
So you’ve finally got a press, you’ve taken it apart, cleaned it, put it back together, and are finally printing on it. So what’s next? Lubrication. Why? Well when any surface mo...
Dolce Press goes International!
Thanks to the Internet we get to work with people from across the world on a daily basis so when Julie from Six Chancery Lane based in Hong Kong contacted us to print business cards we were glad to he...
Guides, Gauge Pins, Galore
We get so happy when we receive new letterpress stuff, so when we got a new set of Kort Adjustable Quad Guides we had to take some pictures of them and share them with you. Printing in the shop has ch...
Curling Photopolymer Plate
Even after carefully storing your photpolymer plates, you still get a few that stiffen up and curl on you. The solution to this is to dampen a paper towel and place it in a zip lock bag with the pho...
A Few Good Men Business Cards
Here are a few nice examples of business cards we printed recently. These cards were printed with hand set type or custom magnesium plates using both stock and custom mixed inks on 110# 100% cotton pa...
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A new member of the family
A couple of weeks ago, I came across a posting for a Sigwalt Ideal #5 which is a tabletop press similar to a pilot. I love my pilot but, what I really like about the Sigwalt is that the platen has op...
Designs come to Life
 A few days ago, I did a post Are you getting Married which showed the new wedding invitation designs available at Dolce Press. I since then, had ordered the plates and printed some samples and th...
What a find!
I’m always looking online for letterpress equipment for sale. I think it’s a sickness all letterpress printers have. I was searching my local Craigslist, and happened to find this book...
Letterpress Business Card Sale Extended
First, I’d like to apologize for the lack of posts lately. We have been busy printing all week long and I can honestly say that this is the first time this week that the presses have had a chanc...
Precision Makes Perfect
Were always trying to come up with inventive ways to get a tight registration on multi color jobs. I find it quite annoying to be constantly adjusting my gauge pins, moving the plate, taking apart t...
Nail File: Printer’s Best Friend
The title is pretty strange but as odd as it seems it’s very true. I had some type that was cast “shallow” and when printing on really soft paper it was actually printing the lead ...
Letterpress Business Card Sale!
We’re now offering special pricing on 1-color letterpress text only business cards printed on 100% white cotton paper (weight: 110#) in the following quantities: 50 cards - $50 100 cards - $80 2...
Manual and Parts List for the C&P Pilot
We came across this scan of the original operating instructions and parts list for the Chandler & Price Pilot Press (New Style). While the Pilot and other tabletop presses are simple in design and...
Vintage Cuts
I finally got around to sorting some of my pied type yesterday and noticed I had these cool vintage cuts in a box. What I found interesting was that alot of them were company logos such as Chevero...