Here are some resources for you! Other printing places, paper, buttons, stickers, binding, and more!

 

Riso Studios & Presses

Secret Room — Portland, OR, USA
IPRC — Portland, OR, USA
Zine Hug — Seattle, WA, USA
Cold Cube Press — Seattle, WA, USA
Living Room Press — Seattle, WA, USA
Paper Press Punch — Seattle, WA, USA
Anenome — Seattle, WA, USA
Awkward Ladies Club — Oakland, CA, USA
Chute Studio — Oakland, CA, USA
Caboose Press — Los Angeles, CA, USA
Tiny Splendor — Los Angeles, CA, USA
Max’s Garage Press — Berkeley, CA, USA
Risolve — Philadelphia, PA, USA
Issue Press — Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Lucky Risograph — Brooklyn, NY, USA
TXTBooks — Brooklyn, NY, USA
Riso Lab — NYC, NY, USA
Perfectly Acceptable Press — Chicago, IL, USA
Oddities Prints — Kansas City, MO, USA
Moniker Press — Vancouver, Canada
Colour Code — Toronto, Canada
Can Can Press — Mexico City, Mexico
Meli-Melo — Sao Paulo, Brazil
Hato Press — London, England, UK
Risotto — Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Foto-Kino — Marseille, France
Lentejas — Barcelona, Spain
Riso Club — Leipzig, Germany
Atto — Milan, Italy
RetroJAM — Osaka, Japan
Hand Saw Press — Tokyo, Japan
When Press — Nagoya, Japan
Ink’Chacha — Hong Kong, China

This is by no means a comprehensive list! Check out
stencil.wiki for a complete and up-to-date atlas of risograph studios worldwide.


Paper Resources

Outlet sells a variety of papers that print well with risographs. You can find a guide to our available papers (with color samples) here!

  • Domtar—Lettermark & Cougar
    Vellum Bristol & Smooth Cover (Letter, Legal, Tabloid)
    67lb-100lb

  • Neenah—Astrobrights, Environment, Exact
    Text and Cover (Letter, Tabloid)
    24lb–80lb

  • French Paper

  • Mohawk Via

  • Kid’s drawing paper

  • Heavyweight construction paper

  • Printmaking papers

  • Matte sticker paper

  • Matte vellum

We source our paper from Kelly Paper, Columbia Art Supply, and Scrap here in Portland, OR.

Miscellaneous Stuff

Riso Ink/Stencil Rolls/Parts:
Hallagans — Chicago, IL, USA

Packaging (for prints, cards, etc):
Clear Bags, Columbia Art Supply, Collage, Artist & Craftsman

Shipping (flat mailers, envelopes, etc):
RefuseUline, JAM Paper, Eco Enclose, PaperMart, The Boxery, Kelly Paper

Free Design/Image Editing Software:
Pixlr, Affinity, GIMP, Photopea, Figma

Collage Supplies:
Craphound, Scan This Book, Magazine Rack, Scrap, Dover Books, and Library of Congress.

You can often find full magazine archives online like all of IKEA’s catalogs, Ebony, Jet, and more!

Need help with file setup? Our friends at Anenome Studio in Seattle made an amazing free program called Spectrolite than can help you separate your layers and set up files for prints and zines!


We try to promote Portland-based businesses in this list, though not exclusively. We haven’t personally dealt with all of them, and we’re sure we’ve missed some. If you know of a business that should (or maybe shouldn’t) be on this list, let us know!