✷ Ink Star Press ✷

Ink Star Press is a risograph printing press and design studio based in south London. Founded and run by Aiden Cosmo, it is a true project of passion, run with the love of risograph printing and the community it fosters. Aiden Cosmo is an illustrator, comic artist and zinemaker who fell hard in love with risograph and has never looked back. He designs all the colour charts, cards and stationary we produce in the studio, and can be found always covered in riso inks and experimenting with printing.

Ink Star Press aims to be as affordable as possible while still covering the costs, and aims to be a real community member in the printmaking world. We are looking to start open access style printing in the coming years and provide more resources and education around risograph. If you have any questions or curiousities around risograph, don’t be afraid to reach out! If we don’t have an answer for you, we can always point you in the right direction!

✷ Meet Our Riso ✷

Our true studio workhorse is our riso machine! Ink Star Press runs off the back of Deirdre, our single drum SF9350 machine. Deirdre is an ex show model machine, making her a little quirky but absolutely perfect in her own way. As a single drum machine, she only prints one colour at a time. She also has a scanner bed top, which is great for working more analogue and playing around with traditional mediums and riso printing.

Deirdre prints at 150 prints per minute and up to 600dpi!