About
Boneshaker is home to a risograph duplicator as well as cutting and binding equipment for making prints and zines. As a print collective, we aim to apply Boneshaker’s radical principles to create a space that can provide low-barrier riso printmaking supplies, access, and education for community members, artists, activists, zinesters, and more.
Workshops + Open Studio
Boneshaker hosts Riso 101 workshops that are provided at a low-cost, sliding-scale rate. These workshops have the aim of teaching the basics of operating the risograph duplicator so that folks have the knowledge to print their own designs. We also offer Open Studio hours to folks who have taken a Riso 101 class, which are times open for printing supervised by a Print Collective volunteer. If you have extensive previous riso experience and want to print during Open Studio hours, please email us so we can do a less extensive onboarding on our machine!
Stay tuned for more riso workshop dates coming soon. New workshops will be posted on our Instagram and Eventbrite pages first.
Printing
The Boneshaker Print Collective also offers low-cost printing for community events, activism, and more. If you’re interested in having your design printed by a Print Collective volunteer, please email us with your request and any questions! Please understand that print requests are limited by volunteer capacity and that risograph printing is an inherently imperfect process!
Equipment
Our risograph duplicator is an MZ790U two-drum model. We currently have seven ink colors: Green, Black, Flatallic Gold, Fluorescent Orange, Blue, Fluorescent Pink, Bright Red, and Sunflower. This machine can print two colors at once on paper as large as 11″x17″. We stock a selection of text and cover-weight paper in various colors. The riso room also houses equipment including a stack cutter and a standard paper guillotine, a saddle stapler for binding booklets, a paper jogger, and collage supplies.
