Ink colors
Risograph machines create a stencil, which gets repeatedly inked and rolled over a page. You can choose from 6 Rice Bran Oil inks:
Formats
Flyers
Recommended volume: 50-500+
Posters
Minimum qty: 30
Recommended volume: 50-500+
Art Prints
Recommended volume: 30-100+
Basic Copy & Print
Recommended volume: 250-2,000+
Non-commercial only
Brochure
Minimum qty: 100
Recommended volume: 250+
Z-Fold or Tri-Fold
Zines & Booklets
We’re not accepting new zine orders.
Note: Riso is labor-intensive and therefore most economical at quantities 50 and above. At higher volume, you’ll find the cost per page is more reasonable.
Gallery
Design
Spot Color
You can print a grayscale file with color ink, to add pop to your project.
Overprinting
With proper setup, you can print multiple colors on top of each other.
Our Riso RZ990 is digital! You can print directly from our workstation PC at 600ddpi quality.
Paper
We print on 3 standard sizes: letter, legal, and 11×17″.
We have a rotating variety of colorful papers. Stop by or email if you are interested in a particular variety.
House Sheets
Our standard sheets, available almost as regularly as government corruption scandals, in letter and 11×17″, include:
- Bright White – 70# Text and 67# Cover
- Cream (off-white) – 60# Text and 67# Cover
- 20# Regular copy paper
Doing a large volume or have specific needs? We can order custom paper by the ream or carton.
Bring-Your-Own
You can bring any paper to D.I.Y. hours, as long as it is:
- Uncoated (no photo/glossy paper)
- No larger than 11.5×17″
- No thicker than 80#Cover
- “Color Copy” doesn’t dry well, we don’t recommend it
We recommend getting paper from local re-use stores such as SCRAP in SF.
For online fine art paper, try French Paper Co.
Other Equipment
We also have the following at the Reprographixxx Print Room:
- Professional-grade imposition software for generating print layouts of books & zines (free to use)
- Folding machine for letter-size brochures
- 8-bin collator machine
- Bookletmaker to fold & saddle-stitch (staple) up to 11×17 sheets.