{"id":22397,"date":"2023-03-03T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=22397"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:46:15","slug":"industrious-illustrating-32-risograph-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/03\/03\/industrious-illustrating-32-risograph-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrious Illustrating #32 &#8211; Risograph Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been playing around with different methods of design and printing, which has led me to make use of the risograph printer available at UMich Stamps. Risograph printing is a type of printing that uses a type of Japanese office printer that layers bright halftone dots of ink, creating a visual effect similar to a screenprint or a retro comic book.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some examples of bicolor and tricolor risograph print designs I recently made or converted into risograph printing format:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22398\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/REAL-ARMORED-CORE-risoified.brightred-black.preview-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/REAL-ARMORED-CORE-risoified.brightred-black.preview-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/REAL-ARMORED-CORE-risoified.brightred-black.preview-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/REAL-ARMORED-CORE-risoified.brightred-black.preview-791x1024.png 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22399\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/RX78-Risograph-risoified.brightred-blue-yellow.preview-194x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/RX78-Risograph-risoified.brightred-blue-yellow.preview-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/RX78-Risograph-risoified.brightred-blue-yellow.preview-768x1187.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/RX78-Risograph-risoified.brightred-blue-yellow.preview-663x1024.png 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22400\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Waai-Fu-Risograph.melon-black.preview-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Waai-Fu-Risograph.melon-black.preview-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Waai-Fu-Risograph.melon-black.preview-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Waai-Fu-Risograph.melon-black.preview-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22401\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/kazuha-print-riso.preview.brightred-mint-melon-lightlime-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/kazuha-print-riso.preview.brightred-mint-melon-lightlime-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/kazuha-print-riso.preview.brightred-mint-melon-lightlime-768x1026.png 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/kazuha-print-riso.preview.brightred-mint-melon-lightlime-767x1024.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Risograph printing is great for creating its signature pixellated texture and intense colors, as well as for mass-producing large print runs nearly instantly &#8212; a risograph printer can pump out dozens of identical prints in under a minute once the master copy of the print has been burned into the pigment rolls. The risograph can also print in fluorescent orange, fluorescent pink, and metallic gold &#8212; colors that I want to try out once I come up with some good ideas for them. I&#8217;m looking forward to bringing more risograph prints with me to conventions as well as for my own personal enjoyment in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been playing around with different methods of design and printing, which has led me to make use of the risograph printer available at UMich Stamps. Risograph printing is a type of printing that uses a type of Japanese office printer that layers bright halftone dots of ink, creating a visual effect similar to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1856,1922,2004,2005,2003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22397\/revisions\/22402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}