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Pixa - organizing your images, the easy way. Handmade Holiday: 10 DIY Garland Tutorials. Pinterest / Home. Mac App Store - Hype. LetterMpress: A Virtual Letterpress on Your iPad by John Bonadies. Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPad LetterMpress™ will be a virtual letterpress environment—released first on the iPad—that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints. The design process is the same as the letterpress process—you place and arrange type and cuts on a press bed, lock the type, ink the type, and print. You will be able to create unlimited designs, with multiple colors, using authentic vintage wood type and art cuts. And you can print your design directly from LetterMpress or save it as an image for import it into other applications. So why bother re-creating what’s considered to be an obsolete process for the new technology of the iPad?

Actually, a letterpress and an iPad operate similarly when it comes to manipulating objects in a composition. A growing interest in letterpress—but difficult to access In fact, letterpress has had a growing interest over the past decade amongst designers, artists, and printmakers.