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notsofastpress
is a micro risograph studio
located in sunny Porto
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notsofastpress
@gmail.com

RISO PRINT CLUB PRESENTS:

NOT SO HARD RISO WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS



Curious about Riso?
At Not So Fast Press we like taking things slowly, therefore this workshop is going to be very relaxed :)
You will learn the basics of risography, get to know the printing machines (Delfina & Floribela),
design and create your 2 coloured prints, take home 10 copies of each + a collaborative poster.

No need for software or artistic experience, you will be working totally unplugged, using paper collage and doodling to create your artwork, next, Floribela will help you scan it on her scanner bed and you will print!

The workshop will be conducted in Portuguese or English, or both, if necessary. 

When?
New Date Soon
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Lotation: 6 participants
Cost: 50€ / person


What's included?
warm-up experimental poster making
materials to work
nice paper to print
2 editions of 10 A5 riso prints
+ coffee, tea and snacks :)



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WHAT IS A RISOGRAPH?


Risograph is a duplicator machine that looks on the outside like a copy machine and works on the inside like a screenprinter-producing prints at high speed.

Each print is unique and special due to the textures and imperfections of the machine. The vivid colors are printed with soy or rice-oil based inks.

Due to the little environmental impact, affordability and hand-made feel of each Risoprint, creative community has adapted this technique to produce beautiful artworks, posters and publications.
 WHERE IS RISO FROM? 

RISO has it’s origins in post-war Japan and was invented by Noboru Hayama in 1946,
nowadays its headquartered in Tokyo, under the name Riso Kagaku Corporation.

The word “Riso” stands for “ideal” in Japanese.

The Risograph was originally designed for high-volume printing in institutions
such as schools, churches and local communities.
It’s soy-based ink, high efficiency and low production cost is perfect
for production runs of 50 to 10000 copies of the same print in color.

HOW IT WORKS?

RISO works by transforming your black and white artwork in a paper stencil, which is called a master.
For each color of your artwork, you need a new master, they are not reusable. Once you have chosen the color/s for your artwork, you scan or upload your image in a file to the machine.

The chosen color drum is inserted into the RISO and the paper stencil with your artwork is wrapped around it. Each drum is assigned to one specific color. Once in the machine, the ink from the drum
is pressed out through the stencil onto the paper, while the drum is rotating at high speed.

Paper is fed flat through the RISO. The color drum rotates inside, “kissing” each sheet of paper that passes under it, printing the image. Each print comes out slightly different, due to the ink coverage, texture of the drum, slight movement of paper while passing under the drum.

One color is printed at a time, for each color you need to switch the drum and pass the paper again through the machine. When printing a multicolored artwork, you are repeating the process to compose your image.