Shop Peek: Shining & Streamlined Last-Minute Event Printing

Custom Letterpress Event Invitation + Corresponding Flat Envelope Stationery

For the fastest prints with unsurpassed quality: opt for single process Letterpress Printing

Did something slip your mind during all those midnight-oil-burning ‘round-the-clock Gala planning days and nights? Are you throwing together a rogue renegade fashion show? Jumping into a last minute shotgun wedding? (again)? There are a million reasons why you might need Event Invitations–STAT. Whatever the cause, Publicide is the solution. Rapid rush-services are available for all your Event Printing needs.*

While we can’t speak for the time frame our friend Michael was working with, Mr. Kors made the impeccable selection of single-process Metallic Letterpress Event Invitations.

It doesn’t require much more than a perfectly registered Deep Impression of silver Pantone Ink on a thick cut of Reich Savoy Cotton Stock to out-shine the other invites in the mail-pile. Skip the extra stylistic flourishes and let your print stand on the integrity of a flawless Typeset. For a dazzling unifying touch, add a tasteful finishing treatment in your choice of Edge Paint or Edge Gilding. In addition, we house ready-to-personalize selections of European Flap and Straight-Flap Stationery Envelopes. Opt for CMYK Digital or a single-process of Offset for your logo, name, or return address. Finally, you can count on us to deliver a run of invitations set for immediate release: vellum-finish mailing labels printed with variable data will eliminate the time consuming downside of handwritten addresses.

Let the festivities begin!

Event Printers | Silver Letterpress + Edge Paint on Double Extra Thick Savoy Cotton Stock

Event Printing | Silver Letterpress on Super Thick Savoy Cotton + Edge Paint; Silver Offset on pre-cut Flat Envelope

*Turnaround/delivery times are  Print-Specific. Turbo Letterpress Services available fast as 5 days. Standard Letterpress Services 7-10 days.

Email  rush@publicide.com for a quote on your speedy & sophisticated Event Printing today!

Letterpress Printers NYC: Custom Business Cards, Events, & Specialty Printing

Choose the supreme dimension of 

Letterpress Printing

The virtues of speed & Ultra Vibrant Color Processing brought forward by digital printing have certainly sparked progress across the working world. However, the individual care & intention placed into every Letterpress print makes the final product radiate with unblocked distinction. With tradition and corporeal gravitas behind it, Letterpress Printing literally presses the ink down into the paper—delivering visible, touchable results.

Ultimately, the quality of letterpress printing relies on the skills of the artisan manning the Heidelberg press, rather than the high resolution efficiencies of a laser. Letterpress is the human choice: it’s only natural that letterpress printing would yield such tactile results.

Timeless Depth

Moveable woodblock type & block imaging came to life in ancient China and then filtered west– finding a home 1500 years later among Gutenberg’s pressmen. Johannes Gutenberg is of course synonymous with the eponymous bibles hand-printed in his mills in the 1400s.   At about 1300 pages, each book demanded three years of relentless work before completion. While the Gutenberg Bible is considered the first instance of a printed & perfectly bound book, history shows the Tang Dynasty’s Diamond Sutra has centuries on ol’ Johannes. And prettier pictures. In any event, the demand for print grew & grew, leading to the industrial revolution and all that mass communication along the way.

How It Works

At our Midtown Manhattan Print Shop, we’ll create a master plate of the art file, rather than exclusively relying on a sprawling archive of moveable type. Not too far from age-old techniques implemented in the Middle Ages and Ancient East, Letterpress Printing today relies on a photopolymer emulsion process. First, the layout and typeset happens digitally: after you send us your art file, the design, logo, and key contact information goes through a point by point finessing from our typesetter.

The perfected pre-press proof is then approved by the client and sent off to be created into copper inking plates; by way of acid etching and photo engraving, the text/art elements are transformed into a relief.  The final result is a convex manifestation of the print to come. The raised design stands out from the rest of the plate, ready to kiss or bite into your selection of premium paper stock.

Depending on the complexity of your print, Letterpress might require multiple plates. The greatest letterpressings are carefully built with multiple processes. The inherent dimension of Letterpress can be expanded upon with an artful selection of specialty specs. Spot color, Embossing, and Foil Stamping might require your print to go through the presses more than once. Colorful imaging could demand offset printing or digital methods. Either way your print is in careful hands, receiving the same consideration whether you’re going for a shining streamlined single-process letterpress or a super-stacked spec-heavy showstopper.

Business Cards, Event Invitations, Wedding Suites, Stationery Printing, and Commercial Printing all benefit from the satisfying visual depth of Letterpress Printing. The resulting clean lines and natural shadows bring a harmonious sense of cinematic drama to each print: all the more capable of keeping the beholder engaged & entertained for at least as long as a winning awards show speech.

Check out some of our latest and greatest Letterpress Printing samples and send an Email to this NYC Print Shop to get started on your next pressed project.

The Look Deck, The Future of Look Books

Look Deck Lookbook Printing NYC |  Deluxe Digital Color + Envelope Slipcase + Unbound Premium Cotton Pages

Strut toward Fashion Week with next-level 

Look Book printing

This New York City Printer specializes in small-run Books and large-scale Commercial Printing for personal and business endeavors. Count on us to tailor our resources to your brand for expert High Fashion Printing and Look Book Services.

Lookbooks communicate all the work you put into your collection for the coming fashion season. It sets your sartorial intentions, defining the strongest stylistic use of your garments, accessories, lingerie and/or swimwear. Lookbooks offer gentle visual instruction to the visuals department of your retailer, making your work all the more likely to make it into eye-catching window displays. Further, a flawlessly executed Look Book will curate unspeakable influence & interest among the stylists pulling your work for their star clientele. Ultimately, a great Lookbook lasts long after the fashion show or pop-up presentation. Consider your custom Lookbook an up-to-date ahead-of-the-trend tool for buyers, media & fashion editors, and your most loyal followers to refer to long after your show-closing bow.

Look Deck Lookbook Printing NYC | CMYK Title Page on 118# Brilliant White Savoy Cotton Paper

Stunning Specs steal the show: LookDeck Look Books are the future of Fashion Printing

Anyone with a copy of Baron & Baron's Madonna Sex book knows spiral binding loses its form with use. Hardcover binding, saddle stitching, and perfect binding are sophisticated, sustainable options. But as we all know, in the fashion industry making the unexpected choice will resonate the strongest with the public. Publicide Printing advises to (always) defy expectations and break the mold with an offering unseen since the Golden Age of Silver Screen Glamour: The Look Deck LookBook.

Much like the luxurious Kodachrome Publicity Still Portfolios implemented by the execs and PR mavens of the Old Hollywood studio system, the Look Deck is a slipcase bound treasure of super-thick individual pages dense with high quality imagery. Complete with title pages and end pages, the final result is an interactive experience that allows the reader to reorder and shuffle their selects to the top of the pile---making your lookbook a highly functional resource of your work as well as a keepsake object d'art.

Our friends at Calvin Klein broke ground with the LookDeck Lookbook on the occasion of opening their exclusive celebrity atelier to the public. To commemorate the event, Calvin Klein By Appointment has launched an official line to go along with the star studded service. The best of the best demands better.

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | Custom European Flap Envelope 184# Brilliant White Cotton CoverStock + DieCut & Fold 

To evoke exclusivity (and maximum function) our friends chose a dramatic European Flap Envelope for the slipcase. Statement Stationery will always resound: custom die-cut, folded, and delicately glued to print-perfection, this tree-free Savoy Cotton Cover stock offers durability, brilliant glamour and a matte finish that remains soft to the touch. The super thick cotton pages within are of a more delicate weight, yet plush enough to still summon opulence. The thickness of the paper allows for optimum Dimensional Deep Pigment Digital Color as well as premium Letterpress techniques.

Matte statements are not for everyone. High Gloss Chromolux premium papers and glossy coating services are available for those that prefer a full-on slick look and feel. Spot UV Gloss touches are available if you only need a kiss of luster. Foil Stamping in shimmery metallic, silver, gold, and holographic are great for adding a flash to your print. Blind Embossing skips ink and offers punched-up details with all the prestige of a tone-on-tone sense of cool. Whatever your tastes or brand identity, we have the Specialty Services to make your print radiate with individual style.

Get the pre-press process started and email our Print-Experts the art files for your next legendary Lookbook Look Deck.

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | CMYK on 118# Brilliant White Cotton Paper and Extra Thick 184#  Cotton European Flap Envelope + Die Cut & Fold

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | CMYK High Quality Digital Printing on 118# Brilliant White Cotton Cover Paper

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | CMYK High Quality Digital Printing on 118# Brilliant White Cotton Cover

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | Full Color HQ Digital Printing on 118# Brilliant White Cotton Cover

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | CMYK High Quality Digital Printing on 118# Brilliant White Cotton

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | Full Color Digital Printing on 118# Brilliant White Cotton Cover Paper

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | CMYK  Digital on Super Thick Brilliant White Cotton Cover Stock

LookDeck Look Book Printing NYC | CMYK High Quality Digital Printing on Extra Thick Brilliant White Cotton Paper

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | CMYK on 118# Brilliant White Cotton Cover Stock

LookDeck LookBook Printing NYC | Deep Dimensional Digital Color Printing on Cotton Paper

Book Cover Review Vintage Edition: LASHER by Anne Rice

Hardcover Book Printing NYC | Cloth Hardcover & Offset Color Dust Jacket + Gloss Coating + Smyth Sewn Binding 

The Poolside isn’t complete without your

Summer Reading

Keeping with her tradition of serving up a sequel that outshines the forebears, Anne Rice continues the sage saga of the Mayfair Witches with Lasher. A sprawling, filthy-rich matriarchal clan of New Orleans eccentrics, The Mayfairs are a bejeweled family who harness the love, lust, and ingenious spite of a mysterious demon named Lasher to actualize their bidding.  At about 500 pages and a quarter the length of the previous book, Rice never reserves her lunacy: delivering all the spellbinding, trigger-pulling extremes we expect of her with maximum potency. On full display is a scalding cauldron of Catholic guilt & Pagan rage, with the overbearing philosophical ruminations of previous works on hold.

Designed by Chip Kidd from his early days at Knopf (the wunderkind behind everything you care about from the hieroglyphic-silhouetted T-Rex clawing across Jurassic Park paperbacks to the Valley of The Dolls-inspired layout and typeface of Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl), this 1993 original features a startling, glossy dust jacket replete with contrasting dramatic elements. A ghostly, veil-tangled bride registered in shimmering sepia floats through a black oasis; the virulent white serifed-type assails & snags the eye, more ominous than the surrounding darkness.

Hardback Book Printing NYC | Deckle Edge Premium Handmade Paper

Hardcover Book Printing NYC | Cloth Hardcover, 3-Process Offset Color Dust Jacket + Glossy Varnish 

SPEC IT OUT

The mysterious elegance present in this piece of expert commercial printing will lend itself to so much more than book printing alone. The bewitching design and sexy-stark specs of this stimulating volume are perfect for Black Business Cards, flyers & Event Invitations, Hangtags & more. Ask our New York Printing Experts about the following hypnotic spec set: Metallic Offset Printing in your choice of bronze or RoseGold, full-flood UV Gloss coating, “White Ink” Foil Stamping, and perhaps a corresponding Edge Gild.

Channel the authority of an eye-grabbing, shelf-space-sprawling first edition for your next run of Book Printing. 

Publicide is ready to take on your next run of keepsake Commemorative Book printing. Special Events deserve to be remembered: guestbooks, event program printing, photo albums, gallery catalogs will hold important CMYK memories to visit again for generations. Strengthen the next looks in your Custom Lookbook by channelling the fine book printing techniques of the 20th century. Hardback Case Binding with ultra-glam book jackets communicate all the luxury and importance of your brand. Naturally, softback Marketing Booklets for mass consumption or corporate communications are a specialty for our Manhattan Printer as well.


Whatever the (slip)case, whatever the binding, our New York Print Shop holds the plates & presses for your next magical printing project. Send us an email today!

Glossy Printing NYC: Spot UV Gloss, Shiny Foil Laminate & Varnishes

Spot UV Gloss Printing brings a polished edge to your Business Cards, Stationery & Product Packaging

Matte looks have gone the way of brown eyeliner; that is: better off totally on its own as a finite statement, or--as we prefer it at Publicide--best when balanced with reflective liquid highlights. For the measured power of powder-fresh/wet-and-wild unions, Spot UV Gloss Printing is the supreme choice in our Specialty Printing department.

Quite perfect for matte tone-on-tone printing (such as your run of custom Black Business Cards or Monochrome Pale Pink Printing) the Glossy Printing process breaks up the print with added glowing, eye-snatching dimension. Unforgettable high-shine details applied to your logo or name will draw your contacts & clients in deeper, allowing more time for them to be dazzled & ensnared. In a business marketplace that's increasingly cutthroat as it is sophisticated, the only thing worth more than attention is more of it. Forget aforementioned balance all together and commit to slippery-sweet spotlight-soaked statement stationery. You need business cards that will, on some unconscious level, remind the beholder of any number of Beyonce performances where she was Sunday Riley glamour-greased, shimmer-shiny stomping & shaking in some body of water onstage. Bey wouldn't want you to hold out: opt for Chromolux Hi-Gloss paper & cardstocks with thermographic text and a final coat of UV Gloss to create a print that's more slick than a vaseline lens on the Rupaul's Drag Race backlot.

So. Think of Spot UV Gloss elements as the lipgloss you cannot leave home without: a trusty bit of luster that pulls your whole face (or print) together with stunning satisfaction.

Extra Thick Business Cards | Plush Cotton Stock + Spot UV Gloss

Custom Flat Envelope | Premium Black Paper + Shiny Black Foil Stamp

Custom Business Cards | Glossy Foil Laminate, Extra Thick Cotton Stock

Technically Speaking

While Spot UV Gloss Printing might sound more Blade Runner-ready than, say, office-ready, it remains a relatively rapid-process with reliable results. Once the essential contact information and/or designs are typeset & printed to your business card or stationery, Glossy details can be achieved with the use of a specialized printer that shoots a clear, light-reactive fluid to selected areas of a print. From there the prints are rolled through a UV light bath, which develops the coating into a fixed-and-fabulous shellac. If this process reminds you of circa 2007 tanning bed experiences, you would not be wrong. The final results, however, are less problematic and assuredly guilt-free. There are no streaks, burns, or toxic fumes emitted from Spot Gloss treatments. Only MTV VMA-worthy glassy-glam.

Far more than excess decoration, Spot UV Gloss coating supplies a protective shield to your commercial printing. Product Packaging, Postcards and Brochures will endure more wear and look better doing so with the added power of UV varnishes. If the ultra-lustrous, crystal-clear-and-thrice-as-tough nail polish top-coat look isn't your taste, any number of finishes in subdued semi-gloss, sea-breeze pearl coat, or misty morning-dew are available at our Manhattan Print Shop. Clear Foil Stamps, and Extra Thick laminates are available for achieving a near identical, double durable, and cost-efficient effect.

Whether you wish to add a little sparkle or commit to a fully lacquered look, Spot UV Gloss Printing will seal the pigments, deepen the color & flash brighter than Times Square at midnight. Shiny logo business cards, ultra-luxurious Look Books, RSVP-catching Event Invitations, and reflective HangTags are all print-perfect specialties at our Midtown Manhattan Print Shop.

Check out some Glossy samples of Wet Look Printing and email Publicide to brighten your prints today!

Custom Business Stationery | Premium Colorplan Paper + Letterpress + UV Spot Gloss + DieCut + Fold

Custom Business Cards | Full Color + White Foil Stamping + Soft Touch Varnish

Black Business Cards | Premium Black Stock + Black Letterpress + Spot UV Gloss + Duplex

Event Printing | Chromolux Hi-Gloss Mirror Foil Stock + Spot Color

Black Business Cards | Premium Colorplan Paper + Deboss + Spot UV Gloss + Duplex

Spotlight On: Poolside Blue Printing for Summer

Blue Printing is sure to make a splash! Colorplan Paper, Pantone Color, and Holographic Foils take your Custom Printing to soaring serene, sky-blue heights

School has been out & Summer Fridays are soaked in, fully ushering us into the blooming state of our summer selves. With more daylight comes more longevity, and thus freed time in both directions for excess fun and on-your-game business planning. Expect Serenity to wash over next.

Kick off a belle-epoque of equal work-and-play with a fresh run of cool color Full Color printing. For business cards best suited for poolside meetings & steam room brainstorms, we suggest aquamarine pigments for your cover stocks and hot foil laminates. Silky Touché Papers and soft-touch Velvet Varnishes bring a sexy, swimsuit-ready feel to your custom-finished Commercial Printing. Your clients and coworkers are sure to keep hold of a sunscreen-smudge-resistant Mirrored Foil business card– Embossed with prestige, Edge Gilded with positive associations. Cobalt, baby blues, cotton candy & gemtone elements would be the choice selections for True Blue High Fashion Printing: your custom garment Hanging Tags await a candy-coated seasonal spin. Destination Wedding Events demand Invitation Printing with serene gold-registered mirages of lapping seafoam shores.

Perhaps floating & diving between number-crunching is not the hand you’ve been dealt (be assured: you are on the brink), if that’s the case we welcome you to carry the sunset visions from your last vacation with you at all times: Holographic Foils lend transformative blazing hues to any print. Get a tan leg up on your long-distance correspondence with a full-flood of Offset superior cerulean Pantone color on your Personal Stationery. For an extra royal finish: send your print-run to the print-shop tanning bed with a UV Spot Gloss treatment that will send a glimmer to all eyes from here to the Fire Island Empress.

Whether you prefer salt or sugar on your rim, organic coconut water or Coco Lopez in your colada: Publicide is serving your bright & shiny summertime Specialty Printing.

Email or Call this Manhattan-based Printer for an inquiry & quote on your custom printing today!

Full Color Business Cards | Deep Pigment Digital Printing + Edge Gild

Extra Thick Business Cards | Premium Cobalt Cover Stock + “White Ink” Foil Stamp + Duplex

Premium Glossy Business Cards | Diamond Cover Stock + “White Ink” Laminate + Deboss + Holographic Glitter Foil Stamp + Glossy Laminate

Offset Business Cards | Premium Colorplan Paper + 2-Process Offset + Edge Paint

Offset Business Cards | Premium Colorplan Paper + 2-Process Offset + Edge Paint

Event Invitations, Wedding Suite Printing | Full Color + Foil Stamp on Extra Thick Cotton Stock

Extra Thick Offset Business Cards | Premium Thick Cotton Stock + Full Flood Offset + Spot Color

Holographic Event Invitation Printing | Premium Colorplan Cardstock + Holographic Foil Stamp + Duplex

Extra Thick Offset Business Cards | Premium Cotton Stock + Full Flood Offset + Sculpture Emboss

Mirrored Garment Hang Tags | Premium Metallic Chromolux Cover + Emboss + Duplex

Super Thick Black Business Cards | Silky Touché Paper + “White Ink” Foil Laminate + Edge Paint

Premium Colorplan Business Cards | Colorplan Cover Stock + Emboss/Deboss + Holographic Foil Stamp

Full Color Business Cards | Full Flood Blue + PMS Spot Color

Full Color Business Cards | Deep Pigment Digital Printing + Edge Gild