Every so often, Risolve will release a free color profile for artists and designers to use when creating Riso prints of their photography and flattened artwork! 

Color profiles are used to color separate images into specific Riso ink colors automatically. With a couple of clicks your images will be separated and ready to take to print.

January 2023's profile is Sunflower, Cornflower, Fluorescent Pink, and Black.

Please note, we distribute these profiles for free but donations are appreciated. Each profile is custom made in house, printed, scanned, and tested. Please consider selecting $5 Donation when adding this profile to your cart if you enjoy the profiles and would like us to continue adding more!

How to use

If you are new to using multichannel profiles like this, please take a look at this page: https://colorlibrary.ch/how-to-install/ Color Library creates similar profiles and has an excellent “how to use” tutorial.

We also have a video tutorial below.

If you are Riso printing with this profile yourself, please take note: This profile does not have any curve corrections built into it to account for the type of paper you are printing on. It is made as a general purpose profile and will need to be tested on the paper you intend to print with.

You’ll then need to adjust the curves on each channel as needed. For example, if you are printing in a small dot dither like “grain touch” on vellum paper, you may need a good curve correction on each channel or your print will come out much darker than what you see on screen.

Terms and conditions

Download for personal use only.
DO credit Risolve Studio as the creator.
DO NOT sell, distribute, or take credit for the profile.

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