Wedding Invitations The Old Fashioned Way

Shelley Barandes feeds sheets of cotton paper into the huffing, puffing press.

“I call this one the warthog. She’s a beast,” Barandes, 28, said of the printing press as she wiped her hands on her apron.

“The neighbors to each side of me, and above and below me know which press I’m using based on the sound.”

The “warthog” - a motorized Chandler & Price platen press from the 1950s - is one of eight antique letterpresses in Barandes’s cheery Somerville studio. She runs her growing, two-year-old company, Albertine Press, out of this space in an old factory building. Samples of her greeting card designs, custom wedding invitations, and coasters hang on the walls and clutter the counters. The air smells of Taza stone-ground chocolate - a neighboring business just down the hall.

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