Riso
Risograph printing and the presses built around it: Kus, Breakdown Press, Colorama, Perfectly Acceptable.
Part of Underground Comics
26 moments in this segment.
- - Cross-section of a risograph. A cutaway showing the drum and ink path of a Riso duplicator, the machine that made short-run colour printing affordable for small publishers.
- - Gocco Print Demo. A demonstration of a Print Gocco unit on tour with a zine crew, showing the flash exposure of the screen and hand pulled prints coming off the machine.
- - Riso EZ200. A mid-range duplicator of the kind bought second-hand by studios and small presses when office users discarded them.
- - Two-colour riso print. An A3 sheet printed in two passes, each colour laid down from a separate drum, giving the misregistration that marks the process.
- - The Brussels machine. The same MZ 1070E in the Chez Rosi workshop, set up for two-colour A3 work.
- - MZ 1070E at Chez Rosi. A two-colour A3 duplicator in a Brussels print studio, one of the machines behind European riso publishing.
- - SPX 2016 Panel - The Art of Printing Comics. Cartoonists Natalie Andrewson and Kris Mukai join Patrick Crotty and Elliot Alfredius of Peow Studio to explain how they produce risograph comics and zines, covering registration, ink layers and the misprints the process produces. Robyn Chapman moderates.
- - HOW TO: Risograph Workshop at Libreria, London. A Risograph workshop at the Libreria bookshop off Brick Lane in east London, following participants as they produce A3 posters. The machine's stencil and drum stages are shown in operation.
- - What makes Risograph printing so unique? An interview with Perfectly Acceptable Press.. Matt of Perfectly Acceptable Press explains in the studio what distinguishes risograph printing from other methods, showing the machine and finished mini comics printed on it.
- - ALL ABOUT RISO | olivia and pindot | risograph. A walkthrough of risograph printing at a small press studio, showing how masters are burned, how colour layers are separated and run one at a time, and what registration and ink behaviour look like in practice. Several finished zines printed on the machine are shown.
- - Made a ZINE in 24 hours on RISO printing ~ Frannerd. Fran Meneses takes a risograph workshop and builds a zine inside a day, showing the false starts, sketches, layout decisions and the printed result.
- - STUDIO TOUR and Tidying Up Pindot Press Risograph Studio. Pindot Press in Melbourne, a two-person risograph shop, rearranges its workspace on camera: master rolls, drying racks, ink drums and the paper stock a small comics printer lives on.
- - Perfect Binding | Risograph - Pass Me By Comic Book. Pindot documents perfect-binding a risograph comic book, a job a small studio without cutters or a binding machine has to farm out in part.
- - Riso RZ 970 in Munich. The press at the Herr und Frau Rio studio, one of the German workshops that print artists' editions on demand.
- - BA Illustration - Demystifying the Riso. Charlie Abbott of Workform, Anya Landolt of HATO Press and Tommy Brentnall of Loose Knees explain how Risograph printing works and what it does to their projects, with illustration student Lena Yokoyama hosting. Each printer walks through specific jobs and where the machine fits in their practice.
- - panellogy 359 - risograph comics. A table-top look through a stack of risograph-printed comics, turning pages from Ryan Heshka, Gunsho, Joost Swarte, Tetsunori Tawaraya, Olivier Schrauwen, Lale Westvind, Mimi Chrzanowski, Erin Curry and Tara Booth, issued by small presses including Colour Code in Canada and Colorama in Germany.
- - Risograph Printing Demo with Anna Tararova. Printmaker Anna Tararova demonstrates a Risograph duplicator at a print shop, setting up separated artwork, running multiple colour passes and registering them, and pointing out the misregistration and roller-marking problems that commonly spoil riso prints.
- - #TCBF21 - 25.9 | Let's talk about cartooning genius. Joe Kessler and Antoine Cosse of Breakdown Press talk at the Treviso festival about the London risograph publisher and the books it prints.
- - Garden Party in close-up. A detail of a micro-edition printed in risography and laid out using web-to-print tools, showing the ink texture at close range.
- - Interviewing RISO Art Studios in Norway / Netherlands＜RISO＞. Knust Press and other European studios are visited by the manufacturer of the risograph duplicator itself, showing how artists use a machine built for office copying.
- - South London Comic and Zine Fair/Avery Hill Publishing present: Establishing a Publishing Company!. A panel from the South London Comic and Zine Fair on running a small comics press, with Dave White of Avery Hill, Rozi Hathaway of Good Comics, Tom Oldham of Breakdown Press and Tom Murphy of Colossive Press.
- - panellogy 544 - a conversation with david schilter (kus! - mini comics). David Schilter founded Kus! in Riga, and describes an editorial method in which not understanding a submitted comic counts in its favour.
- - Changing the ink drum. Swapping the colour drum on a Riso S-3700, the manual step that separates one pass from the next.
- - how I make RISOGRAPH PRINTS ☆ drawing on procreate, file set up, full riso process. Megan Wang explains what a risograph is, then works through a drawing made in Procreate, separates it into colour layers and prepares the files for printing. The final stretch follows the press run itself with printer Radhia Rahman.
- - Volcan Press, Guadalajara. A risograph printing studio in Jalisco, part of the Latin American network of small presses working in the format.
- - Riso posters. Printed posters showing the flat, saturated spot colours that the process produces from soy-based inks.