For years we have dreamt of bringing letterpress printing in house, especially as my Grandfather and Great Grandfather were both compositors. With the craft of printing being so popular we have, for some time now, been getting the right equipment and the ideal set up in place.
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At Generation Press printing is our livelihood, we have to view letterpress printing in the same way we do for litho or foil block printing, setting high standards to give our customers a letterpress solution.
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Letterpress is very close to our hearts, it is part of our heritage and that heritage is in manufacturing. We look forward to being challenged by you with yet another print process we can offer.
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Hi-Res Images here
Design and Photography: An&

'GP is 10' is now off and running and the first lucky recipients are starting to receive their copies of our GP10 mailer!
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Packaged in a specially designed/constructed mailing box (with our own Colorplan Barry™ duplexed to the inner). Inside is a wallet holding ten items featuring contributions from Build, Sanna Annukka, Timothy Saccenti & John O'Reilly
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This is a gift from us to our customers who have supported us over the last ten years. We are very proud to have worked with Build, Sanna, Timothy & John on this project. This is also a testament to everyone here that has put the time and effort in to making all the pieces as good as they are.
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This would not have been possible without the huge contribution of the creative's involved, so a very big thank you to them!
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Most important at this time is all the people that make up Generation Press. Every detail on this has seen everyone contribute and it is their skill and craftmanship that has made this what it is - A massive thank you to all at GP.
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Keep an eye on our twitter feed (@GenerationPress) for a chance to win 'GP is 10' items.
Yet more to come! Four limited edition posters that we think are really quite special, one from each of our contributors...more info soon!

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Wow look at this for a line up, proud to have graced our presses with this beauty, this was a labour of love, great imagery, great products and a great design.
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We were afforded the time with this project to do things in the right order! working with the designer Michael (from Build) from the very beginning.
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This allowed us to plan each element including getting the sections with the scores on the inserts working out so when all the sheets came together in the slip case, both scored edges were equal.
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Another attention to detail was getting the wrap around slip case just right so the depth of the capacities were wide enough to hold the inserts but not to wide to let them fall out.
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One of my favourite aspects on this is the use of the litho printed white on the recycled grey board along side the foil blocking & debossing, a great example of using alternative materials and turning them into something special!
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Commonwealth
Featuring photography by Timothy Saccenti
Photo-retouching DopePope
Designed by Build

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This invitation and envelope is a bit special with an embossed colorplan envelope printed with litho white ink, die cut and made up by ourselves. The invitation is a flockage stock, debossed with litho print on the reverse.
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Word up to the guys at Kent Lyons, look out for more posts of their work, I think they could be in the running for the most posted clients :) always using print and processes in the most imaginative ways, real fans of the printed word!
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Design: Kent Lyons
Photography: Kent Lyons

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Wow this one really did push the boat out and pushed all the boundaries, a four colour image was printed to a flock surface, special preparation to the press was required for this! probably the hardest surface we have printed on, as the sheet goes under impression the nap of the flock goes one way or the other so it was important to get the press set up as precisely as possible as each colour goes down the surface could move.
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The Rug Company