He also built Letterpress with a new intent: independence from software owned by other companies.
With the arrival of the letterpress, thousands of identical copies could enter the marketplace simultaneously.
Take the hit game Letterpress, which will only run on devices with iOS 5.1 or higher.
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Mr. Brichter's latest app is the word game Letterpress, released late last year through his company, Atebits LLC.
Engraved cards are more commonly used for formal weddings, while letterpress is used for more casual events, says James Hirschfeld.
Letter by letter, his ink-stained fingers hand-set type, ink the raised letters with a hand-roller, then crank heavyweight paper through an old-fashioned letterpress.
Elizabeth diGiacomantonio recently parted ways with the co-founder of her three-year-old business, Walk Up Press, a letterpress and design studio in Brooklyn, N.
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The main difference between the Crane invitations and the other paper offerings on the website is that they can be engraved or include letterpress printing, so that the printed messages have texture.
LetterMpress is easy to learn and to use, and allows you to choose from a surprising variety of typefaces, blocks, and a wide range of paper styles to create your letterpress masterpieces.
Computers can nearly recreate a letterpress look by putting filters over type, but they can't reproduce the irregular look that comes from ink buildup on the type and the varying pressures applied during the printing process.
At the turn of the 20th century, letterpress posters advertised boxing matches, circuses and carnivals, but most print shops junked their clunky letterpress printers for offset units in the 1950s or for computers in the 1980s.
Plugging the proposals into a spreadsheet, he started listing the tools needed to produce each one: A CNC milling machine for an updated, open-source letterpress printer, a laser cutter for a sensor warning pilots of nearby planes.
Though just an employee of the museum, he began chatting up the benefits of letterpress work to shop visitors -- while turning out posters for performers like Emmylou Harris and obscure rock bands such as Nashville-based Bone Pony.
This month, the main event is an attempt to showcase every poetry book published in the U.S. in the past year, from tiny letterpress chapbooks and poetry baseball cards (laminated cards with pics of contemporary poets and a poem on the back) to poetic CDs and hefty volumes by poet laureates.
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