I've had a lot of folks say I should make postcards and I am moving forward with this idea a bit. One of the things I'm trying to figure out is a good method of quickly and efficiently printing postcards full bleed with a 4x5 negative for contact printing or enlarging onto the postcard, along with a stencil for text. The stencil will be a sheet of transparency printed with either black text to make white letters on a black background or printed in all black with transparent letters for the opposite.
The hard part for me is to line up the text on the postcard along with the negative or with the enlargement in a consistent and repeatable pattern. Crooked text or overlapping the negative would look bad. So how was this done "back in the day" when it was more common? If I want to make 50-100 postcards I don't want to faff around too much trying to line things up manually.
Easels give me white edges, contact printing with what I have will be a nightmare to line up consistently, especially if projecting an image from the enlarger rather than contact printing. So looking for a better way, even if I have to make it myself. One idea is some wood with a 4x6 depression routed out of it slightly, with glass on top, to fit in the postcard paper with negative/transparency cut to size. Ideas? Or is there already a product out there for this?
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