2 Color Wedding Invitation - Color 2

I promised you photos of the final invitation once I pressed color number 2, which is a medium grey, onto what I showed the other day. When pressing a second color, lining up the 2 designs in the second run is the main challenge. As I mentioned before, when any piece is letterpressed, the printer has to press each color in the final design in separate press runs. The nice thing about this design is that it is primarily a series of type lines, and therefore is much easier to line up. Ta-da!

2 Color Wedding Invitation - Color 1

Letterpressing in multiple colors brings its own challenges in addition to the normal ones. Each piece has to be pressed first with one color and then with the second, third, etc. The difficulty comes in lining the second color to the first while keeping all lines parallel and maintaining an even press. You also have to clean off ink colors between runs and prep your press each time separately. I had my first experience with this on a Christmas card about 3 months ago. It was a challenge that I, being self-taught, had to try and re-try numerous different times before I felt confident enough to do the full run. The images below show the first color (purple) on what will be 2-color wedding invitation. I will post the final product once it is finished!