We just ran our first Save the Date on bamboo paper and it printed really well. The bamboo sheet is a little bit harder than the 100% cotton rag paper that we normally use but this sheet ran just fine and printed beautifully.
From what my distributor tells me, the bamboo paper isn’t actually 100% bamboo fiber, it has about 10% cotton rag mixed into it to soften it up a bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
In a nutshell, Elum is being accused of infringing the “copyright protected” designs of Dolce Press, which I believe were copied from us in the first place. Make sense? I don’t think so either.
Elum has the right to display images of what we believe are infringing copies of Elum proprietary designs. The images from Dolce Press were placed on our site to illustrate our belief that Elum’s protected designs were being copied by Dolce Press in violation of Elum’s rights, and to allow consumers and the industry to make up their own minds about it. That is a fair use under copyright law.
In order to avoid costly attorney fees and all of the BS associated with having to deal with a situation like this, we decided to remove the Dolce Press images that we believe were “inspired” by our designs in the first place and just get on with business, and life. We made our point – we got Dolce’s attention, and we have made it clear that Elum will protect its proprietary rights, as should everyone who feels that they have been violated.
If you believe a website is displaying your copyrighted materials without permission, you may be able to send a DMCA takedown notice to the site host and have the offending material removed. Click this link for more information:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi
The original blog post “Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery?” can be seen here, without images of course… http://www.elumdesigns.com/blog/category/flattery/
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How sweet are these letterpress business cards?? If you’re familiar with Style Me Pretty you will know that Abby recently changed up her website and logo not too long ago. And we all know that when you decide to change your logo there are few must haves and business cards are one of them.
Abby has been so kind to us by featuring Elum invitations on Style Me Pretty we just had to print these for her as a way of saying thanks for all of her support over the past few years. We printed them on 110lb Lettra and as you can see the impression is to die for – this is a perfect example as to why we love letterpress printing. The type is sunken super deep into the soft cotton paper and the ink is so perfectly set at the bottom of the impression – printed perfection!
Abby, SMP is an amazing site that is full of valuable wedding resources, tips and ideas for brides everywhere. Your blogging and writing style is to die for. Keep up the great work.
ELUM LOVES SMP!!!!
If you LOVE typography and Pop-Up books. Well, you need to go and get this book.
Available here: http://www.amazon.com/ABC3D-Marion-Bataille/dp/1596434252
We just finished printing this amazing invitation that was designed by Kristi and Ravi, both graphic designers. When we saw this design we instantly fell in love with it and basically had to print it.
The invitation, reception and reply card are printed on ultra thick 600 gsm cotton rag paper. The belly band (not shown) and informal note is printed on 300 gsm cotton rag Copperplate. The invitation is letterpress printed with two custom colors and the surrounding pattern is blind hit. This is one of those invitations that when you receive it you just have to reply “yes” as fast as you can. You don’t even need to read it or know what the event is, you just know you’re going – its that good!
