If all the moons aligned, I had a shot at lettepress printing my newborn's baptism invites. Childcare lined up: check Paper purchased: check Studio time reserved: check In order to save precious time away from my baby, I decided to have Boxcar Press produce the plates, which I normally do myself. The plates came out crisp and beautiful. I know my son will appreciate looking at these invites in his baby book when he's older. Boxcar Press worked with me regarding shipping delivery times, which I appreciate. Thank you. read more

I just had an overwhelmingly positive experience ordering custom plates from Boxcar to make letterpress invitations, the whole process was delightful. Their website is really helpful and full of links and tips that even a beginner can understand, then when you don't they are available to take questions via phone or e-mail. They aren't condescending even though they're total pros, it was so pleasant. I uploaded my design at 2am and the plate was shipped to me by that afternoon with a couple e-mails here and there to let me know the status of my order/shipping info. I can't wait to work with them again! read more

I'm really not impressed with how they handled international shipping for some plates I had ordered while on a printmaking residency in Canada. I was charged an additional customs fee, which is perfectly fine, but no indication on their website that this would happen. Additionally since I had them ship these plates to the residency coordinator to sign for (before I arrived there) they ended up sending her the invoice along with what I'd consider a pretty jerky message. Heres some advice BoxCar, send the invoice to the person who was billed (ME) so that I can go ahead pay that so that you don't have to harass people who don't owe you any money. read more

I used Boxcar for our first line of greeting cards. They did 24 designs in just 2.5 weeks. Just delivered well in time for a trade show we participating in. Additionally, some of the designs included letterpress printing on both sides and successfully minimized imprint show-through which is a tricky thing to do in the business. They came out beautiful and we started posting them to our shop: http://chopshopstore.com/greeting-cards.html All this and they were the best price I found for quantity, time and quality out of about 15 printers. read more

My wife and I toured their facility and watched their entire process. Their equipment is pristine and their work is outstanding. The artists are capable of every kind of print scenario you could want: metallic foils, gradients, luxury paper, thick stock. If you need something that really delivers a punch I would absolutely order from this company. It's so rare for a company to actually focus on something of quality or originality these days and they are one of the few that have moved back to actually caring about their product. They even have a gallery of their work you can see for yourself by visiting the facility, an entire wall covered in actual ordered work from past customers and a sample gallery. Heck even if you aren't looking to order anything it's worth visiting just to check out what's possible with print press these days. read more

I had a bad experience ordering photopolymer plates, Shipping was very late (to Brooklyn NY) 5 working days ,i did tried 4 different kind & all of them low quality !!not worth money or time !! read more

I had a great experience ordering save the dates from Boxcar using a custom design that I made. They quickly understood what I had in mind, offered useful instructions/suggestions, and completed the job in a timely fashion before shipping to CA. The finished product was exactly what I was hoping for. They even emailed me a few days after the wedding to offer their congratulations! Definitely recommend. read more

Not sure how anyone could have anything negative to say about the quality of Boxcar's printing or their customer service. Everyone knows Zappos is the Gold Standard of Customer Service. Well, I'd say Boxcar is the Zappos of the letterpress world. First I ordered plates and they double checked my order and it turns out I ordered the wrong type so they helped me dodge that bullet. Plates cam. Looked awesome. But this was my first attempt at letterpress printing and I quickly realized I was way over my head. To make matters worse, I was doing my daughter's Wedding Invitations!! So, I sent an email asking for help. Boy, did they help. I sent them the paper and the inks I had purchased. They had to make new plates, of course, but they kept in constant communication, sent tracking numbers, kept me updated on schedules, etc. Finally, last Friday UPS dropped off the box of invites.OMG... GORGEOUS!! They even sent me an email saying how nice MY design was! My only conclusion about seeing Zak L's and Nelly D's one and two star ratings is, maybe you get what you give? I don't know, but these people are amazing and I highly recommend them to anyone. As a matter of fact, my son is getting married in 10 months. Take a guess who is doing the letterpress printing? Boxcar rocks! read more

Mary, Anthony, and all the folks over at Boxcar Press are the very greatest! I had the boneheaded, masochistic idea to teach myself Adobe Illustrator to design my own wedding invitations and then send them off to get letterpressed. Of course, I didn't know the first thing about bleeds, bitpmaps, grayscale, vector files, or any of the finer points of graphic design for letterpress. The guys over at Boxcar were so immensely patient and helpful: they mailed me several samples of papers and inks, responded to my many emails promptly and with good humor, and even took pity on me and did some of the final design stuff themselves (for free!). If they were at all annoyed by my amateurishness, complete lack of understanding of graphic design, and many, many questions, they never showed it. And best of all, the invitations came out absolutely gorgeous!!! All for a very, very reasonable price, I might add (comparable to plain old embossed invites). These guys are total pros - Boxcar Press is the best! read more

I'm a letterpress print maker and I order letterpress Polymer plates, inks, and supplies from Boxcar press. I cannot say enough good things about them- they are so incredibly accommodating in every aspect of the platemaking service. I cannot recommend them enough!!! read more