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Colorized

Risograph and letterpress, Kingston

Priced per pull, per colour, per sheet

Colorized is a two-press shop: a risograph for short runs in flat ink and a 1962 Heidelberg for letterpress. Every price on this site is per pull and per colour, so a hundred two-colour A5 flyers is a sum you can do yourself before you write to us. Artwork requirements are on the price list, not buried in an email chain.

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Closed, opens Friday at 09:00

+1 876 948 6273

Price list

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A5, one colour, per 100 pulls 34.00 One ink, one pass, on 120gsm uncoated. The unit price falls at 250 and again at 500 and both breaks... A5, each additional colour, per 100 26.00 A second ink is a second pass. Registration is accurate to about a millimetre and designs that need better than... A3 poster, two colour, per 50 58.00 The size most of our work is. Fluorescent pink and a second ink is the combination nothing else on this... Zine, A5, 20pp, per 50 210.00 Printed, folded, saddle-stitched and trimmed. Two colours throughout. Four working days rather than two. Letterpress cards, setup 180.00 Per plate. Covers the polymer plate and the make-ready on the 1962 Heidelberg, which is the part that takes the... Letterpress cards, per 100 impressions 95.00 After setup. On 300 to 600gsm cotton. One colour per pass, deep impression, and the edge painting is extra and... Stock, at cost plus ten per cent — Charged separately and shown on the invoice as both numbers. Sixteen papers in the shop and you are welcome to... Test pull on your stock 12.00 One sheet, your artwork, your paper, before you commit to a run. About one in six customers changes something after...

What the process actually does

Registration is off by a millimetre and that is the medium, not a mistake

Risograph lays one flat ink at a time on a drum. Two colours means two passes through a machine that does not know where the first one landed to better than about a millimetre.

People arrive expecting offset and leave with something better, but only if they know what they are buying first. Colours are flat and cannot be mixed on the sheet except by overprinting, which makes a third colour we can show you on a swatch. Fine registration between two inks is not achievable and designs that depend on it will disappoint you. Large solid areas roller-mark. Fluorescent pink cannot be reproduced by any other process available on this island, which is why half the work that comes through this shop uses it. All of that is on the price list next to the prices, because a customer who is surprised at collection is a customer we failed at the quote.

The shop

Presses
2
Inks on the drum shelf
14
Year the Heidelberg was built
1962
Usual turnaround on riso
48 hrs

What customers say

4.75 out of 5 · 8 reviews
A twelve-dollar test pull changed my whole design before I spent anything.
Fifty zines, folded and stitched, four days, stock shown at cost on the invoice.
Told me the riso could not hold my registration and printed it letterpress.
Registration is a millimetre out. They say so everywhere. Design for it.
The fluorescent pink is the reason to come here. Nothing else prints it.
Roller marks on a run. Reprinted free and written up on their own site.
Letterpress setup fee is real money. Worth it on the second run.
Every price is per pull per colour. I costed the job before emailing.

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Artwork, stock and turnaround

What the files have to be, what the inks can and cannot do, what a run costs, and when you can collect.

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What do you need from me?
Separated files if you have them, one layer per ink, at 300dpi. A flat PDF is fine too and we will separate it, which takes an hour and is charged as an hour. Say which ink you want where; do not assume the file’s colours are the ones we have.
How accurate is the registration?
About a millimetre on the risograph, because each colour is a separate pass and the machine was designed for church newsletters rather than for fine art. Design around it. Letterpress is far tighter but is one colour per pass with its own setup fee.
What does a run actually cost?
Pulls times colours, plus stock at cost plus ten per cent. A hundred two-colour A5 flyers is thirty-four plus twenty-six, plus the paper. Every price break is published so you can do the sum before writing to us.
Can you match a Pantone?
No, and anybody who tells you they can on a riso is guessing. There are fourteen inks on the shelf, they are flat, and overprinting two makes a third that we can show you on a swatch card before you commit.
How long does it take?
Forty-eight hours on the risograph for anything that is not folded or stitched, four working days for a zine, and a week to ten days for letterpress because the make-ready cannot be rushed honestly.
What will you not print?
Long runs, anything needing tight registration between colours, and full-colour photographic work. Both presses are wrong for those. We will name the shop that is right for it and take nothing for the referral.
Can I see the paper first?
Yes, and you should. Sixteen stocks are in the shop, you are welcome to handle all of them, and a twelve-dollar test pull on the one you choose has saved a lot of people a lot more than twelve dollars.

Forty-eight hours on riso

Send the artwork and the quantity and we will price it today

Separated files if you have them, a flat PDF if you do not. We will tell you what the process will do to your design before we take any money, including when it will not work.

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Off the press

Everything
17 Sep 2026 What fluorescent pink actually doesWhy it cannot be reproduced by any other process here, and what it does over blue. 17 Sep 2026 Eight months rebuilding a HeidelbergWhat was wrong with it, what it cost, and the parts that came from a farm in Clarendon. 17 Sep 2026 Preparing artwork for a risoSeparations, overprint, and the millimetre of registration you have to design around. 17 Sep 2026 The run we printed twiceRoller marks across four hundred posters. Ours, reprinted free, and what changed on the press afterwards. 17 Sep 2026 Jobs we turn awayLong runs, tight registration, full-colour photography. Which shop to take them to instead.

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Artwork, quantity, stock and the date you need it. We price the same day and say plainly when the process is wrong for the job.

Monday to Friday
09:00 to 17:00
Saturday
10:00 to 15:00
Sunday
Closed
31 Tower Street
Kingston, Kingston

+1 876 948 6273

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