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When Spudnik Canceled and We Printed at Home

Today was supposed to be my print day at Spudnik… but after a last-minute cancellation, I ended up doing the session at our home studio instead!

Charlie Yellow

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When Spudnik Canceled and We Printed at Home
The colors came out so good!

Today was supposed to be my printing day at Spudnik Press. But last night, I got a message saying they had run out of Riso supplies... so my reservation was canceled! I was so disappointed.

But then my husband said, “Let’s just print it at home! I’ll be your studio manager.” So we gave it a try!

I decided on these three, but you never know how combos will turn out.

Actually, we’ve got a lot of ink colors at home—but unfortunately, no florescent pink. So we used a Riso color called “bubblegum.” He swapped out the red drum, and it turned out to be a slightly reddish pink. Then we printed using that, plus yellow and teal

Something Long is a double-sided print, and after printing the three colors on the front side… I noticed something terrible. One of the pages was UPSIDE DOWN!!

And just when they printed perfectly… the bone illustration was upside down!! So frustrating!!

And the worst part? I made this exact mistake when I printed in the summer—and I thought I fixed it! But apparently, the version I used for this new color separation was the wrong one. Old me strikes again!!

I was so mad at my past self. Seriously, get it together!!

Luckily, I was able to repair the data. So I’ll finish the printing tomorrow instead.
Ughhh... still, I’m so bummed!!