Price list
Risograph is priced per pull per colour: one sheet through the machine once, with one ink. Two colours is two pulls. Letterpress is priced per impression with a setup that covers the plate and the make-ready. Stock is charged at what it costs us plus ten per cent and the list is below.
Risograph
A5, one colour, per 100 pullsOne ink, one pass, on 120gsm uncoated. The unit price falls at 250 and again at 500 and both breaks are on the full list.USD 34.00
A5, each additional colour, per 100A second ink is a second pass. Registration is accurate to about a millimetre and designs that need better than that will not work here.USD 26.00
A3 poster, two colour, per 50The size most of our work is. Fluorescent pink and a second ink is the combination nothing else on this island can print.USD 58.00
Zine, A5, 20pp, per 50Printed, folded, saddle-stitched and trimmed. Two colours throughout. Four working days rather than two.USD 210.00
Letterpress
Letterpress cards, setupPer plate. Covers the polymer plate and the make-ready on the 1962 Heidelberg, which is the part that takes the time.USD 180.00
Letterpress cards, per 100 impressionsAfter setup. On 300 to 600gsm cotton. One colour per pass, deep impression, and the edge painting is extra and worth it.USD 95.00
Stock
Proofing
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.
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 customers say
Read all the 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.
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