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Custom Print: I Had A Dream

Posted on April 8, 2010April 8, 2010 by Hijiri

I printed another awesome custom prints for lovely Lindsay from Lindsay Wilson Photography the other day, I was about to share those pieces and realized that I hadn’t shared the previous custom print I made for her yet… so I wanted to share this first :)

She wanted a print with a part of this song by Priscilla Ahn “DREAM” — great song!

Type setting :: I didn’t have all the letters so I had to break up the lines and print couple lines first.

Use the same “I HAD A DREAM” setting,Â move them, and print the first line:

and print the line in between separately…

and here is the final product! Came out so nice, I am very happy with the result and so is Lindsay :)

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Custom Print: Here Take My Sweater

Posted on October 27, 2009October 27, 2009 by Hijiri

Lindsay from Lindsay Wilson Photography wanted a custom print that means a lot to her and her husband for their paper anniversary as a part of her gifts to him. ((I printed a special print for our second anniversary as a “cotton” gift — because I always work with cotton paper — it can go either way!!)) I always get so happy and honored to be able to create a special print that means so much to someone. This print was no exception. I had so much fun printing and I was so happy to print this for them!

Adjusting placement and impression with my printout — always helps…

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I love the blind printed impression, so pretty always.

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So turned out that I didn’t have enough letter “E” so decided to print without the first word… Typesetting, inking and…

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printing the three words first.

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Now, typeset the word “HERE” to where it’s supposed to, take out the words that were printed and lock them with furniture.

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Print on top of the first print…

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and here is the final print!

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Congratulation, Lindsay and her husband, for their 1st year anniversary!! I was so honored to create this, thank you so much!

Custom Print: Certain Thing…

Posted on June 11, 2009June 11, 2009 by Hijiri

I got to work on another great custom print for an etsy buyer, Emily : “The Certain Thing is that You Can Change Everything”

My cheat sheet. I can’t print without my printout… it just helps to guide, check spelling, see mirrored letters etc.

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First type setting: some of my wood types don’t come in too many of them… so when I have to print certain letters many times in a phrase or sayings, I have to break it down so I can use the letter again. So here, I’m printing the 3 lines first. And sometimes, I have to flip letters upside down to print… there are sometimes lot of thinking involved to print, you have to be very flexible, I think.

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Love the pink press… :)

The first 3 lines:

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Now, setting types for the rest of the lines…

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the letter “T” is used 6 times in this phrase, I still don’t have enough so here are 2 more lines, but not completed:

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Print on top of the first round:

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Setting the rest of the type:

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the last T from “THAT”:

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“THING” from “EVERYTHING”:

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and finally printed!

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Some close up of the nice texture it gave:

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I hope Emily like it! Thank you so much, it was another fun printing!

Custom Print: BLISS

Posted on May 27, 2009May 27, 2009 by Hijiri

I had fun printing this custom print for Lindsey, “BLISS” â€“ what a simple and happy word! It’s going to be her last name soon… even happier!! :) Congratulations, Lindsey! (soon-to-be-Mrs.Bliss!)

Setting up type, locking up on Vandecook Press:

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