Registration drift is the point
A risograph will not put the second colour exactly where the first one went. The drum shifts, the paper stretches with humidity, and across a run of forty…
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Read the note ↗Paper weight and ink lift
Below about 180gsm the drum starts lifting fibres off the sheet and depositing them back onto the master. You see it first as a faint speckle in solid…
Read the note ↗What a workshop actually costs
The machine is the cheap part. Masters are consumable, ink is consumable, and the real cost line is the sheets you throw away getting registration close enough to…
Read the note ↗A short note on colour separation
Separating an image into riso channels is not the same as converting to CMYK and hoping. The inks are opaque-ish, they layer subtractively but imperfectly, and the order…
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