Loaded: pink · blue · yellow

Print it loud, in three inks.

Risograph is the studio that runs your zine, gazette or poster as a real press — saturated spot inks pulled over warm stock, with the misregistration left in on purpose.

From 9¢ a pull · proofs are free
01 — How it prints

One sheet, three passes through the press.

No CMYK, no four-colour smoothness. Each ink is its own plate, and the character comes from where they don't quite line up.

PASS 01

Pull the pink

The first fluorescent plate lays down the loud layer — the one that carries the run.

PASS 02

Shift in the blue

The blue plate goes down a few millimetres off-register, so edges grow a coloured halo instead of a grey shadow.

PASS 03

Let it overprint

Where pink crosses blue, the seam multiplies to violet. Depth from ink, never from an outline.

02 — The overprint

A fourth colour you never mixed.

Violet isn't an ink we load. It only exists where the pink plate and the blue plate overlap and multiply — so every overprint is a little proof that the press did its job.

Pink × Blue = Violet
03 — Recent runs

Pulled this week.

Spring zinePINK + YELLOW · 240 pulls
Ward gazettePINK + BLUE · 90 pulls
Map of the wiresBLUE + YELLOW · 50 pulls
Other tools fix the registration. We frame it.
— Mei Tanaka, lead printer at the Midori Ward press

Send us a file. Get back a stack of sheets.

Upload artwork, pick your inks, and we pull the run on warm stock — misregistration and all.