I am currently offering affordable, supervised one-on-one printing sessions at my private risograph studio!

Sessions typically last around two hours, during which time you will be free to make as many prints and impressions as you want. No prior experience of riso printing is necessary — I can guide you through the process of producing your prints if you are a complete novice, or leave you to get on with the job of printing if you are a seasoned Riso veteran!

Files to be printed should be brought on the day via USB or emailed in advance to abigail@beanandqueer.com as grayscale PNGs. Alternatively, you can bring along hand-drawn artwork layers to be scanned in on the Riso’s scanbed, though I would recommend bringing digital files as aligning artworks by hand on a scanbed can be extremely challenging.

A small selection of paper stocks, listed below, are available on-site, however I would encourage you to bring your own paper if you would like to print on paper stocks of different weights and colours. Alternatively, if you already have a clear idea of the kinds of paper you would like to try printing on, and how many prints you would like to make, feel free to email me and I can try and order them in for you ahead of time.

I have six colours currently available for use: Blue, Fluorescent Pink, Yellow, Orange, Teal, and Black. This selection of colours can be used to print eye-catching zines and booklets, and can also be used to make full-colour art prints. A series of downloadable Photoshop colour profiles that can help with the process of formatting multi-colour artwork files for Riso printing can be found here. Alternatively, I can run your artworks through Spectrolite (a programme that splits up and formats multi-colour RGB pr CMYK artwork files for Riso printing automatically) if you are not confident trying this yourself.

Any materials used will be charged for after the session is complete; the cost listed below covers my labour in guiding and supervising you through the printing process, and helping fix any technical issues that may arise. Costs are charged on a sliding scale, and are as follows:

A3 Master: £4-8 each.

Inks: 2p per impression.

Paper:

• Context Natural 250gsm (White): 20-25p per sheet.

• Red Coloured Paper 170gsm: 20-25p per sheet.

• Clairefontaine Evercopy 80gsm: 3-4p per sheet.

• Custom papers: 30-35p per sheet.

Clairefontaine Evercopy is a high-quality office printer paper that suits use as interior pages of zines, booklets, and chapbooks, which may be text-heavy and only printed in single colour (with possible exceptions made for two-colour images). Art prints, zine covers, business cards, leaflets/flyers etc. should be printed on thicker, denser paper stocks.