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If you're someone who's curious about using the risograph printer, you can use an incredible program (free to download for both Windows and Mac!) called Spectrolite, designed by ANEMONE studio. This program is fantastic if you don't have access to something like Adobe Photoshop to separate all of the colors in your image - because this completes that process for you! The website has plenty written up about how to use it, but to give you the basic gist: Step 1: On the left han

Oscar Wilde once said, “To collage and print is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” That isn’t even nearly close to what he actually said (which is why you should always fact check a blog post), but we’re going to pretend that it is for the sake of this post. If you’re someone who wants to experiment with using the risograph, but illustrative work isn’t really your bag, you can still enjoy all the quirks of the printing process while using photos o

The first step to being good at something is being bad at something, and you've come to a great place to do it. This is all about how to take a photo (or an illustration) and convert it into a four-color risograph print, using Aqua, Fluorescent Pink, Yellow, and Black inks. You will need: Adobe Photoshop (or something similar) A photo/illustration/image An emotional support snack or beverage* (*technically optional - but I'm here to have a good time, thank you.) For today's

Listen, we know. Usually the first thing someone says when we eagerly tell them about the risograph printer is "Who are you, and how did you get inside my house at 2 AM?!" shortly followed by "So, tell me more about this 'rizzo-graph' printer business..." It's more likely than not that you haven't heard of the risograph (pronounced ree-so-graff) before -- but if you have, welcome! -- and we're here to help explain what it is, how cool it is, and how you, dear reader, can util