We're hoping to narrow it down to one brand that we particularly like, and then order a decent quantity of trimmed sheets, so we can stop dicking about with scalpels every time we want to make a card for someone.
As usual with our ancient wooden type, a fair amount of make-ready was necessary before we could even get all of the letters to print:
We weren't at all worried about getting a perfect or polished finish, just wanted to get an idea of the result we'd get on each of the papers.
You can't really tell from these pics, but the difference in the results was really very pronounced. We're currently tending towards the smoother papers, as these give a sharper edge to the text (obviously), and we find that more appealing.
Having said that the wire texture on their standard Colorplan stock was pretty awesome:
Not quite right as a standard material of course, we need to chose the right job for this.
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