In developing the booklet to go along with the kit I used the letterpress the do some tests so see how it compared the hand making them. I tried out simply printing the text onto different coloured papers. However I discovered that when you roll the roller over the metal letters to ink them it leaves an impression on the roller. This image can then be rolled out to create a 'ghost' of the image. I just wanted to use plain black as i feel using colour could give it a cartoon feel I don't want. I quite like the negative 'ghost' images that were left by the roller, I felt they had more character although it was much harder to get readable text. I also used some thick tracing paper I had previously experimented with to do the ghost prints on as the text can only be read on the reverse side.
However some of the drawback to the letterpress are the limited amount of fonts and styles to choose from, i had to pick something that i felt best suited the style. Another issues with the fonts is the sizes, as i am working on such a small scale (a7) i can only really use the letterpress for the front cover as 30pt is one of the smallest sizes they have and it limits the font styles too.
I do like to use the letterpress as i think it has more character that printing directly from a computer
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