The Gilded Press Based in Eastbourne East Sussex.

The Printer & The Press

The Gilded Press exists to make things worth keeping.

By hand. With weight and intention.

Because words carry weight, and a brand should leave a physical mark.

The Gilded Press Logo - GG

A British Private Press

We still set and print with the type that built this country’s printing trade.
Gill Sans. Caslon. Plantin.

They are not just digital styles on a screen. They are physical working tools made of lead and brass.

Digital type can imitate them, but it cannot replace the way they bite into the paper under pressure.

The Work

Hot foil stamping is a deliberate language of choice.

Metal. Heat. Pressure.

Each decision changes the board. Every project is a direct conversation between the heavy iron and the hand that feeds it. To me, foil and board are not just materials; they are the final proof of a maker's calibre.

If your work is worth selling, the handover is worth pressing.

Pressed. Kept.

The Printer

I am Simon.

My 38 years in the printing industry didn't start in front of a screen. It started with a scalpel blade in hand, traditional cut-and-paste boards, Letraset, and the darkroom chemistry of PMT transfers.

I cut my teeth on a single-colour Rotaprint before moving to the Heidelberg GTO 52. I learned the architecture of a page with a pica ruler and a scalpel, not a mouse.

I've watched the trade get infinitely faster and almost entirely automated. The paper is now fed into the press without a human. And in the race for speed, the craft itself has been lost.

I never enjoyed the high-speed factory mindset, and so The Gilded Press was born in Eastbourne as a private press dedicated entirely to the craft of the "Deep Impression."

Today, I combine my roots in analogue layout and vector precision with real, hands-on press experience. I commission flawless, solid metal dies and hand-feed every single board myself, creating the tactile craters that a high-speed machine simply cannot replicate.

I’m not interested in the high-speed race. I’m interested in the one-off, the short-run, and the mark that stays struck.