Start the presses! Split the fountain!

We love letterpress here at Ajalon Print, Web & Social Media! Our sister company, Invitations by Ajalon, creates exquisite letterpress wedding invitations for brides all over the world. It is always a treat to be able to see all of the fun letterpress printing techniques that come out of the studio.

Most recently, we decided to run a split fountain for Ajalon’s 2011 Thanksgiving greeting card! A split fountain is achieved by using two inks in one letterpress fountain.

The printer positions the inks perfectly to create a luxurious gradient within your piece.

Split fountains can be run on your letterpress and offset print jobs.

The result is a-maz-ing. Just imagine your letterpress business cards printed on a split fountain!

Are you a letterpress lover?

If you are a paper lover, you’ll love our letterpress! If you or your business is hosting an upcoming event, consider letterpress invitations. At Invitations by Ajalon, we love to print affordable, quality invitations on luscious 100% cotton Crane Lettra papers with sustainable soy inks.

Whether you are hosting a company event or getting married in the near future, our letterpress invitations will leave a lasting impression on your guests (and your prospective clients!). If you have never experienced the luxury of letterpress, let us send you some free samples.

Our September special expires on September 30, 2011, so act fast! Receive 100 one-color invitations, 110 blank envelopes and 100 one-color reply cards for only $499!

Choose from the elegant and festive designs in our design gallery, or let us create a custom design especially for you! Your business logo will look great letterpress printed onto your invitations, thank you cards and more.

Attention: Letterpress Lovers! You don’t want to miss this…

Are you a fan of letterpress printing? Here at Ajalon, we love to print letterpress wedding invitations and more on a daily basis. There is a certain charm that comes with this printing process that is quickly being replaced with digital print methods.

A new iPad application works to keep up with new technology, while simultaneously keeping in line with tradition. LetterMpress was made available to users on July 5.

Even with this awesome application, it will never come close to the touch and feel of a real letterpress printed piece of art. The subtle indentations and gorgeous mixed ink is something that application developers will never come close to.

Order some letterpress samples today to see what we’re talking about!

It used to be that books were something that big, mega sized companies published and the rest of us bought  in bookstores. But that is no more.  Ajalon Printing & Design has printed as few as 20 books for a gentleman from Oakmont.  Conversely, we have printed tens of thousands of books for John Lee MD Solutions in Sebastopol.

With the computer and the digital world upon us, it is possible to print most any size or quantity of books.  It can be a short run of poetry books for a reading in Petaluma or the book faire in Santa Rosa.  We can do perfect binding (soft bound), so that the book looks like a regular trade paperback.

Or for that especially precious biography, we can do a hard cover book in a large or small quantity.

We do many different types of binding from plastic spiral binding or comb binding.  Wire-0 or velo binding.   Or the traditional saddle stitched pamphlet or chapbook.

We love helping our clients with their books.  For some people this might mean even scanning something previously printed for which there is no digital file.  Scanning can be done quickly and it is a lot easier than retyping many pages.

Some people bring in books created in Microsoft Word and we can format them for printing into a book of a traditional size paperback.  We can add art or pictures to a book and help in the layout.

So book printing is right up our alley.  We have been helping folks from all over Sonoma County with their bookmaking needs.  After we do a book, often times people bring in their friends so that we can help them.

With our letterpress we can produce beautiful poetry books where the type kisses the fine 100% cotton paper and leaves a sweet impression.  The quality of the written document literally makes an impression that is beautiful and classic.

So we aren’t one of those big publishing houses, but if you want to self publish a book or just get a few copies of a manual printed, Ajalon Printing can help you.  Give us a call today.