Letterpress look without a letterpress

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Letterpress look without a letterpress
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Prismera has a neat tutorial on getting the look of a letterpress by using hot glue and a burnisher – pretty labor-intensive but neat!

4 thoughts on “Letterpress look without a letterpress

  1. Anonymous says:

    What you made there is called a Collograph… they can be printed with either intaglio or relief inking.

  2. Patti Schiendelman says:

    Yes, that is a collograph, thank you – it’s the extra burnishing that gives the letterpress effect. :)

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