Comments on: The Airship: graphic novel printed on letterpress

By: Ian Kahn

Ian Kahn — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:22:00 +0000

Interesting project and I look forward to seeing the result. N.B. I had a set of letterpress printed QR codes (as trade cards) created about 2 years ago by Scott Vile at Ascensius Press (reading ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ And offering any who quoted it a discount at a fine press/antiquarian book fair…several takers, pleasingly).

By: petr

petr — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:08:00 +0000

150 overs is not huge. On a typical colour offset run I allow a minimum of 400 overs, and difficult jobs with heavy solids etc could be double – as it is easy to spoil quite a lot quickly. For a letterpress run maybe its a little more than necessary, but 250 is a small run, you could always sell them. I’ve been printing for 30 years (letterpress, offset and lately digital)

By: copperwatt

copperwatt — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:00:00 +0000

A QR code on a letterpress print is like a bumper sticker on a Bentley.

By: Fornicus

Fornicus — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:47:00 +0000

Interesting project to receive a grant for. The skeptic in me wonders how good the comic itself is when you ignore the print method.

By: kvh

kvh — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:19:00 +0000

AND ALSO – if they’re printing 400 in hopes of keeping 250 good ones, they must be pretty new to printing. An overprint of 60% is HUGE.

By: Erik Denning

Erik Denning — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:12:00 +0000

This guy’s stuff looks a lot like Chris Ware’s.

By: kvh

kvh — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Dittos on the QR code comment.

That is far from the first to appear letterpress printed. Most printers I know have had one pop up on a business card job somewhere along the line.

I printed one on an art print years ago that sent the user to the Ottmar Mergenthaler wikipedia page, and the letterpress/screenprinting shop I co-own called Baltimore Print Studios, prints one monthly a $2 coupon for the local Final Friday’s events.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:38:00 +0000

Sounds very cool! But not first to do letterpress QR codes. I have a business card of Patrick Barrett's (owner of Lucky Duck Press) with a letter pressed QR code on the back.