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Holiday Personalization
The inside of the card is yours
A proverb you come back to every year. Your family's name and the year beneath it. A line you'd actually say out loud, instead of whatever the card company wrote for you. We set your words in metal type and press them into heavy paper in Kent, Connecticut — and we leave you room to add a note by hand for the people who'd want one.
- 50Card minimum, per design
- 1923Ludlow typecaster, still in daily use
- 186The Pantone red, mixed in small batches
- 5Business days to ship, typically
What goes inside
Say the thing you actually mean
A printed card says "Happy Holidays" to everyone. A personalized one carries a proverb you keep coming back to, your family's sign-off with the year under it, or a line that only makes sense to the people getting it. And because we leave the rest of the interior open, you can still write a few words by hand to the friends who deserve them.
A proverb or blessing
Set in type, with room left for a handwritten note.
…and may next year be quieter than
this one. Miss you both. — Kate
this one. Miss you both. — Kate
A family sign-off
Names and town — printed once and sent to your whole list.
Come see the new house in the spring!
A firm greeting
With space for the partner to add a line to each client.
It was a pleasure working with you, Tom. — D.R.
Every Card Is Crafted With Tremendous Care
Most personalized holiday cards are a font dropped into a template and sent to a digital printer. Yours goes through six steps on century-old presses in our shop in Kent, Connecticut.
Every Card Is Crafted With Tremendous Care
Step 01
Set from the case
The typefaces you choose from aren't a digital menu — they're cabinets of matrices in our shop, one drawer per face and size.
Step 02
Your words, cast in metal
We set your message and cast each line as a solid metal slug — your greeting, in metal, ready for the press. This same Ludlow was a workhorse for the New York Daily News.
Step 03
Locked up on the press
The slugs are locked into a steel frame with wooden furniture, positioned using leading to your specifications.
Step 04
Ink mixed by hand
Our red is weighed out and mixed by hand to the exact Pantone formula, one small batch at a time.
Step 05
Printed one card at a time
Every card is fed through a vintage press by an experienced printer. The type presses into paper heavy enough to hold the impression — run your thumb across the back and you can feel where the words are.
Step 06
Proofed, folded, and packed in our shop
Before the run, we pull a proof and read it letter by letter. After it, every card is checked, folded, paired with its envelope, and wrapped in tissue. The same care that sets your type packs your box.
Ordering takes about ten minutes
Four steps on your side, and none of them need a designer, a phone call, or a file. Everything after that happens in the shop.
- 01
Choose your design
The front is letterpress printed — the in-house design is inspired by our archive. Pick the one you want to send.
- 02
Compose your message
Type your greeting, choose a typeface and a layout, and see it laid out on the card as you write.
- 03
Order 50 cards or more
Fifty cards per design is the minimum — the point at which setting metal type makes sense. Envelopes included.
- 04
Check out and you're done
Personalized cards start at $5.75 each; the per-card rate steps down above 100. Your order typically ships within five business days — cards are printed in the order they arrive.
For firms, practices & offices
One card a year that your clients keep
A letterpress card with your firm's name set in metal type does something an email can't: it stays on the desk. If you send one greeting a year to clients and referral sources, this is the one worth spending on — and at fifty cards it costs less than most firms spend on a single lunch.
For firms, practices & offices
One card a year that your clients keep
Law firms
A year-end greeting to clients and referral sources, with the firm name and partners' sign-off set in type. Leave the interior open and each attorney can add a line to their own clients.
Medical & dental practices
A card that thanks patients without asking them for anything. Set your practice name and a warm line inside; staff can sign the ones they know. It reads as care, not marketing — which is exactly why it works.
Real estate, wealth & family offices
The clients you want to hear from again are the ones you already closed with. A pressed card with your name on it stays on the mantel through the holidays, next to the ones from family.
One card for the whole list
Plenty of our designs carry no religious imagery at all — winter landscapes, birds, a ship under sail, a fox on a country road — so a single card can go to every client on your list without a second thought.
Ordering for an office
Same 50-card minimum, same five business days, typically. If you need several hundred across more than one design, or want your greeting proofed by us before the run, write to info@saturnpress.us and we'll set it up for you.
Choose a design to begin
50 cards minimum orderA note from the shop
A long list is a lucky thing.
If you're sending a hundred cards this year, it means a hundred people crossed your mind. We can't write the note for you — but we can take the words you choose, set them in metal type, and press them into paper heavy enough to keep.
Sincerely yours,Saturn Press
