RISO Printing

The press offers a variety of printing and finishing services. The RISO machine can accommodate up to 11" x 17" sized paper to create the following projects:

Posters, flyers, books, art prints, menus, folded cards, envelopes, invitations, zines, brochures, and more.

Risograph Printing is a digital duplicator process that has unique characteristics and always contains slight imperfections. These include:

Smudging. Risograph ink is made from a combination of environmentally friendly rice bran oil, water and pigment, the prints are reminiscent of newspaper ink and it is possible to smudge the ink.

Uneven coverage. Large flat areas of solid ink coverage are likely to show some slight variations, which can include pinholes and flooding.

Registration. Riso is like screen printing in that each ink color is layered on separately. A single piece of paper will run through our machines several times for multi-color projects and the overlap of colors can be irregular.

Tire marks. When a paper is fed through the machine multiple times and it is heavily inked, the paper feeder rollers may leave tire marks on the pages face or end sheets.

 

Design

The press functions also as a graphic design studio. Get in touch with me either by requesting a quote or by contacting me directly and I will work with you to figure out how to best fulfill your needs.

 

Paper Options

The RISO can accept paper with weights from 20lb bond (75 gsm) to 110lb cover (300 gsm). I keep a variety of paper types and weights in stock. Due to the nature of RISO ink, we can only work with absorbent, non-coated paper. Using absorbent paper will minimize potential smudging. Vellum and smooth papers work the best.

 

Binding and Finishing

The press offers saddle and Singer stitching options for zines and booklets.

 

File set-up

Max paper size: 11" x 17"

Max printable area: 10.5" x 16.5"

Zine/book sizing:

  • Most cost effective: 5" x 8" (or smaller)

  • Largest saddle stitched book: 8" x 10"  

In order to take your project to print, I need a 300-600 PPI PDF with your spot colors channel separated (not layer separated). 

Ink Colours

Toof Press has a RISO SF5450 machine that uses vegetable-based inks. We currently offer the following colours:

  • Green ☻ PMS 354 U

  • Yellow ☻ PMS YELLOW U

  • Black ☻ PMS BLACK U

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