Overprint is a community risograph studio in an old Ancoats mill. We print posters, zines and flyers in bright inks, teach anyone to do it themselves, and throw a zine fair every spring.
Eighty tables of zines, prints and badges in the mill yard, every April.
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What is a riso, anyway?
A risograph is a Japanese duplicator from the 1980s that prints one colour at a time through a stencil, like a very fast screen print. Each ink is a drum: fluorescent pink, medium blue, sunflower, teal, and twenty more.
Prints come out with flat, glowing colour, a soft grain and the odd layer slipping a millimetre out of line. We love the slip. It is how you can tell a person was there.
It is also cheap, quick and gentle: soy-based inks, recycled paper and no heat.
