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It's great to see a fellow Cal Poly Art grad on HN! (I graduated 2009, so I probably passed you in the halls, although I don't recognize your name). I imagine you had the pleasure of Chuck's Color Theory class, right?

I always get strange looks when I tell people that Chuck's Color Theory class was one of the best Art classes I took in college. I mean it, too.

It's telling that you had to teach yourself HTML/CSS. The Art department is still of little help in that regard. They're still teaching tables for layout. cringe

Anyways, good luck. I'm happily employed, so I can't offer myself up as a co-founder.

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Yay, Cal Poly!

I actually went back there a year and a half ago to try to teach a lesson on correct HTML/CSS - and failed miserably. My public speaking skills were awful, I was stuck in the computer room (so everyone was surfing rather than listening), and I wasn't promoted - it was awful. I hate that Enrica still teaches Dreamweaver as the correct way to markup websites.

Thanks for the luck. <3

My public speaking skills were awful

As are everyone's first time they lecture. At least from my experience, second time is a ton easier/better.

To make myself at least somewhat useful: Have you thought about making letterpress invitations significantly cheaper in some way? If you offer only a few templates and paper choices, it's possible to make a decent margin. The initial capital is fairly significant, though. A letterpress and a font or two is not a cheap investment.

Although the real money is in high-dollar custom letterpress wedding announcements, there may be some money toward the lower end of the pricing spectrum.

The problem with letterpress is that the plates can't be mass-made — it's a separate letterpress plate per invite, so every invite with different wording would have to have a different plate. It's an interesting idea, though, and an area that definitely needs improvement.

Have you considered using 3d printers to generate the press template on demand?

Cal Poly is great... but, Solvang for the win!

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