Ben shows us how to use a Riso Printer

Ben Wright is a practising illustrator and an illustration lecturer. If you want to look at more of his work check out the links below. Ben shows us what Riso Printing is and how it can be used to get different results to standard printing.

If you have any question about Risograph, leave them below and we will get back to you!

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[damionelson]

Thank you Ben perfect explanation, now i just need to find someone who has one!

[CraftySven]

Very well made video guys ! Thanks for the quick and simple explanation.

[yogsothoth]

I used a Risograph in my indie printshop business in the early 90s! Desktop publishing (DTP) was quite a new thing at the time and we didn’t have much competition. We did our artwork using PageMaker, CorelDraw and PhotoShop and printed the results on a Risograph. Process printing required a minimum print run of 1, 000 copies per print which is too much for small companies. Although we could only print spot colours with a Risograph (as opposed to process printing which used a base of four colours–CYMK–to produce full colour prints) we could print in small quantities, from 10 to 1, 000 which is about the quantities usually required by small businesses.

[CC-sicr]

I've never heard of this until recently. This must be popular in England bc I've never seen this style of printing in the United States. Saying it sits somewhere between photocopying and screenprinting was helpful! Can you Riso on things other than paper? I still don't understand why anyone would want to do this bc it seems to be more time consuming.

[rizwanshafi]

Can we use red ink in this to copy red text?

[patrickmnhleko]

Ben hai I have a timing problem in my duplicater riso SF 5030

[dakshkumar]

The problem alignment moves in second time print

[lizzyluv]

Currently using these on my university course and can't for the life of me figure out what the point is

[mjombachrispinus]

Can this machine print full colour image