Copper Press presents... LIMITED EDITION PLATES!!!
Truly One-of-a Kind
Literally HOT off the presses!
Have you ever been to someone’s house – you know, someone with money – and marveled, perhaps even with a sense of class envy, at the works of art adorning their suede walls? While they ruminate on how when the milky dusklight gently caresses such-and-such painting, the very canvas itself comes alive, have you just wanted to throw your glass of merlot at them? Don’t you secretly wish you could be one of them? You mean you don't want them coming over to your pad, tripping over stacks of CDs, sitting on your $85 futon, ignoring the smell of old cat urine emanating from the heat vent, and admiring how the harsh lights of the 7-11 turn everything into a four-alarm fire in your 300 sq. ft. apartment?

Then CALL NOW! Well, don’t call. We’re averse to ringing phones. But ORDER NOW!

“But what the hell is it I’m ordering?” you ask, half-drunk on the excitement of becoming somebody. Well, check it out: These here are the actual plates upon which the pages of Copper Press are printed.

Get savvy. Talk about how each plate represents an entire “half-signature” from actual issue of Copper Press, how it is a ONE OF A KIND! and, like, totally rare and stuff. For a 120-page issue, there are exactly ten plates, plus four for the cover. That’s ever. As in, you buy one of these plates, you’ll be the only person in the world with it. How’s that for cool?

“But what the hell is this thing?” Why, it’s art, silly! “OK. But, like, I wanna talk smart about ‘em when people – I mean, my mom or my girlfriend – OK, my mom, comes over.” Ah, gotcha.

Here’s how printing plates work: First of all, the plate is a thin sheet of aluminum paper that is coated with a photographic emulsion. Should you receive a plate from us still coated with this photographic emulsion, do not lick it. That would be bad. And stupid. Anyway, the plate is flexible and is attached to the press on big rollers. In fact, the press has a series of rollers in it. Most importantly, there are two with which you should be concerned. The first one is the one to which the plate is attached and the second one is a similar roller, except that it is coated with a special rubber. This roller is called the “impression roller.” When the press is put into action, the ink is spread onto the plate and is squeegee-d off just enough so as to clean the ink off the part of the plate that will not put any ink on the paper, but not so much that it will remove the ink from the emulsion that remains on the plate. Y’follow? As the inked plate rolls, it is also in contact with the rubber impression roller. This contact transfers the image to the surface of the impression roller. The printing press is an amazing bit of engineering, and at the precise moment that the wet ink is rolled on to the impression roller a sheet of paper is fed through the press and the image is rolled on to the paper.

“ That’s cool, but what’s a “half-signature?”

Close-up of Plate 3B from Copper Press issue 21
You realize that Copper Press is not printed a page at a time, but, In fact, it is printed twelve pages at a time. If you were good at math, you probably already figured out that Copper Press’ page count each issue can be easily divided into twenty-four-page divisions. These divisions or sections are called signatures. A single twenty-four-page signature is printed on a single sheet of paper. Since there are two sides to every sheet of paper, if there are twelve pages printed at a time on each side, you end up with twenty-four pages. What follows is a very secretive process not unlike origami with swords that literally fold and chop that one sheet of paper until it is a neat, little twenty-four-page section of Copper Press.

Now, enough of the technical mumbo jumbo. Let’s talk size. These pieces of ORIGINAL and UNIQUE art measure 40.5” wide by 31.5” tall and about the thickness of a business card. The cover plates stand 26” by 22” – still larger than your average silk-screened concert poster. And again, these are one of a kind.

“Yes, I’m intrigued, but are they signed and numbered?”

Signed and numbered. Signed and numbered? Are our pages signed and numbered? No. Well, then neither are our plates. If we signed and numbered our plates, then every twelve pages, there’d be our signatures – and that’d be retarded. However, if you want us to sign and number them, we will. That would be less retarded. And we'd feel like baseball players signing autographs.

Our INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING PRICE for these plates are $99 for the full-size plates and $79 for the cover plates. From there, the market will determine future pricings. With them being as limited as they are, this may be your best chance to get them at this ridiculously low price. This is, after all, art.

View these plates at Copper Press dot com. You may order online via credit card.

ORDER YOURS TODAY!!!!!!!