Pressed press kit
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App             Pressed
JP App Store    Pressed レトロ印刷風の写真加工
Developer       Ahmet Duman, independent
Platform        iPhone and iPad, iOS
App Store       https://apps.apple.com/app/id6782635292
Price           Free to download. Pressed Plus is a one-time purchase,
                9.99 USD, ¥800 in Japan.
Contact         membrain.app@gmail.com
Site            https://aduman.github.io/pressed-app/


One paragraph
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Pressed turns a photo into a printed sheet on an iPhone or iPad. It separates the image
into spot inks, screens each ink as its own halftone at its own angle, overprints them so
two inks mix into a believable colour, and lets the paper show through. Because it follows
the order a press follows, registration drift, ink bleed and dot gain survive into the
result instead of being painted on. Everything runs on the device. No generative AI, no
account, no cloud. It exports print-ready per-ink PDF separations with registration marks
and die-cut stickers, so the output is a thing you can actually print.


Quotable line
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No generative AI. Your photo never leaves your device. The output is yours.


Contents
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icon/            App icon, 1024 x 1024 PNG
screenshots-ja/  Six Japanese App Store screenshots, 1320 x 2868 PNG
samples/         Ten output samples

  01-zine-cover.png                     A zine cover, composed from app output
  02-plates-and-print.png               Three plates and the print they make
  03-forest-floor.png                   Forest Floor, green and ink black on kraft
  04-citrus.png                         Citrus, orange, yellow and ink black on white

  Before and after. Photograph left, print right. No captions, no device frames.

  05-before-after-true-color.jpg        Pomegranates and a blue bowl: Harbor, True
                                        Color, two inks on cream
  06-before-after-true-color-citrus.jpg Citrus and an enamel jug: Harbor, True Color,
                                        two inks on cream
  07-before-after-three-color.jpg       A kayak: Three Color, three inks on white

  True Color on its own

  08-true-color-still-life.jpg          The pomegranate print, full bleed
  09-true-color-citrus.jpg              The citrus print, full bleed
  10-true-color-plates.jpg              The two inks of 08 as separate plates, with crop
                                        marks and registration crosses

True Color solves the image for ink amounts instead of routing colours by hue, which is why
two inks can still print red as red and blue as blue. Sample 07 is the older hue-routed mode,
included so the two can be compared.


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Everything here may be used in articles, reviews and social posts about Pressed, cropped
or resized as needed. Crediting "Pressed" is enough. For anything else, or for other
images, video, or an interview, email the address above.
