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The run log
One hundred runs from the studio ledger, 2017 to last week. Every job that went through either drum gets a number, and the numbers keep going. This is the boring part of a print shop and the part we are proudest of: nine years of paper that left the building and did its job.
852runs logged
96,400sheets printed
100shown here
9years on the drum
Selected ledger entries
| Run | Date | Job | Inks | Qty | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SP-0001 | Mar 2017 | Grand opening poster First thing the drum ever printed here. Pink, crooked, perfect. |
1-color | 60 | ||||
| SP-0004 | Apr 2017 | Olneyville open studios map First multi-color run. Registration was a suggestion. |
2-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0009 | May 2017 | First zine: Studio Notes #1 Our own zine about having a zine. Regrettable, cherished. |
1-color | 80 | ||||
| SP-0012 | Jun 2017 | Pride parade handbills Colored in every ink we owned, one at a time, over three nights. |
2-color | 500 | ||||
| SP-0017 | Jul 2017 | Block party flyers The summer we learned the drum does not like humid Saturdays. |
2-color | 350 | ||||
| SP-0020 | Sep 2017 | Zine: Armory Park Sounds First trade-zine we printed for someone else. The shelf started here. |
2-color | 100 | ||||
| SP-0026 | Aug 2017 | Menu boards, first cafe Hand-inked board, printed menu. The cafe closed. The menu survives. |
1-color | 60 | ||||
| SP-0033 | Nov 2017 | Turkey trot bibs Yes, riso bibs. No, the ink did not run. Mostly. |
1-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0039 | Oct 2017 | Punk show series x4 Four shows, four shades of pink. The venue paid in pizza and merch. |
2-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0047 | Jan 2018 | Comics: Basement Lights First comic anthology. Sold out at a table with a folding chair. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0052 | Dec 2017 | First holiday cards run Client's family, our first repeat customer ever. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0058 | Mar 2018 | Spring seed catalog Seed co-op's first catalog. We have printed every one since. |
2-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0066 | Feb 2018 | Valentine mishap edition Registration failed. Sold the crooked ones as 'the honest edition.' |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0071 | Jun 2018 | Sonic Youth cover show posters First three-drum job. Never again on this equipment, worth it once. |
3-color | 120 | ||||
| SP-0079 | Apr 2018 | Community garden signage Waterproof-ish. Riso ink is never waterproof-ish. It rained. Lesson. |
1-color | 120 | ||||
| SP-0084 | Sep 2018 | Library card invites A library's 100th birthday. We made them look checked out. |
2-color | 80 | ||||
| SP-0090 | Jul 2018 | Harbor swim postcards The series that turned into Twin Lakes Fanzine two years later. |
2-color | 500 | ||||
| SP-0097 | Dec 2018 | Holiday gift editions The run that started our December gift-workshop tradition. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0103 | Oct 2018 | Election day reminders Polls open till 8. Printed 900 of the most useful sentence we know. |
1-color | 900 | ||||
| SP-0110 | Feb 2019 | Valentine card packs Printed in pink on pink paper. Sold out in four days. |
2-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0117 | Dec 2018 | Bakery boxes, first order The bakery account turns eight this year. Longest standing client. |
1-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0124 | Apr 2019 | Poetry chapbook: Grist First bookbinding job on the new stitcher. Spine held. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0131 | Mar 2019 | Poetry broadsides x6 Six poems, six ink pairs. Our favorite format, still. |
2-color | 180 | ||||
| SP-0139 | Jun 2019 | Harbor festival maps Biggest single-day run to date. Grain earned its keep. |
2-color | 600 | ||||
| SP-0145 | May 2019 | Bike map of the west side Drawn from memory by someone who rides it daily. Accurate, somehow. |
2-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0153 | Aug 2019 | Band poster series x9 Nine bands, one template, nine ink pairs. A study in palette. |
2-color | 450 | ||||
| SP-0161 | Jul 2019 | Open swim schedule Blue ink, obviously. Distributed at every pool in the city. |
1-color | 600 | ||||
| SP-0168 | Oct 2019 | Halloween window display Printed on black kraft with gold. The gold jammed eight times. |
2-color | 40 | ||||
| SP-0176 | Sep 2019 | Zine: Bridge Report, first proof The proof run that convinced the artist to do the whole book. |
1-color | 25 | ||||
| SP-0180 | Dec 2019 | Membership drive posters The poster that got us our first fifteen members. |
1-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0190 | Nov 2019 | Thanksgiving pie labels For the bakery. Labels that say PIE in black soy. Iconic. |
1-color | 800 | ||||
| SP-0195 | Feb 2020 | Mutual aid flyer run Emergency run during the first week everything shut down. Free, all night. |
1-color | 1,000 | ||||
| SP-0203 | Jan 2020 | Studio notes #4 The last one before the world changed. A time capsule, honestly. |
2-color | 100 | ||||
| SP-0208 | Apr 2020 | Neighborhood newsletter #1 Weekly for two months, monthly ever since. Still our favorite standing job. |
1-color | 500 | ||||
| SP-0218 | May 2020 | Window posters for closed shops 'Closed is not gone' series. The block still has two of them up. |
2-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0221 | Jun 2020 | Protest safety cards Know-your-rights cards. Printed around the clock with a borrowed drum. |
2-color | 2,000 | ||||
| SP-0233 | Jul 2020 | Distance concert posters Shows that happened through car radios in a parking lot. |
2-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0237 | Sep 2020 | Zine: Six Feet Sessions Interviews done over the fence line. A strange, tender little book. |
2-color | 120 | ||||
| SP-0249 | Sep 2020 | First mail-order zine pack Our shipping dept is a kitchen table. It has always been a kitchen table. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0252 | Nov 2020 | Election info posters Polling place hours in blue. The most requested reprint ever. |
1-color | 800 | ||||
| SP-0264 | Nov 2020 | Mutual aid winter flyers Heat fund drive. Printed weekly all winter. |
1-color | 700 | ||||
| SP-0268 | Dec 2020 | Pandemic holiday cards Cards for people who could not travel. We cried a little, fine. |
2-color | 350 | ||||
| SP-0281 | Feb 2021 | Love notes to the neighborhood Distributed randomly. Some are still taped in doorways. |
2-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0285 | Mar 2021 | First outdoor market banners Largest format we had attempted. Learned about feed margins the hard way. |
2-color | 30 | ||||
| SP-0296 | Apr 2021 | Gallery: Overpass studies, proof The proof that became the Arches of the Overpass book. |
1-color | 20 | ||||
| SP-0299 | May 2021 | Menu system, Duck & Bao First restaurant client. Menus reprint quarterly and always in season colors. |
2-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0312 | Jun 2021 | Firefly census charts The first firefly census. The kids made us promise to do it again. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0314 | Jul 2021 | Summer camp workbooks 400 kids, 500 workbooks, one very tired intern (love you, Rosa). |
2-color | 500 | ||||
| SP-0327 | Aug 2021 | Zine: Twin Lakes #3 The loon subplot begins in earnest here. |
2-color | 160 | ||||
| SP-0330 | Sep 2021 | Zine: Static, first printing The AM radio zine that put the library on the map. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0343 | Oct 2021 | Day of the dead window Marigold orange on black kraft. The window smelled like a garden. |
2-color | 60 | ||||
| SP-0347 | Oct 2021 | Gallery show invites x3 Three shows, three ink pairs, one very organized spreadsheet. |
2-color | 90 | ||||
| SP-0359 | Dec 2021 | Newsletter year-one collection All 40 weeks bound. We keep one copy in the archive forever. |
2-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0361 | Dec 2021 | Gift edition workshop outputs Participants printed 250 gift editions in one night. Record still stands. |
2-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0375 | Feb 2022 | Mend, a mending zine Visible mending patterns. The cover is patched with real fabric. |
2-color | 180 | ||||
| SP-0378 | Feb 2022 | Wedding suite, no lace The invitation that proved riso can be elegant without being precious. |
2-color | 120 | ||||
| SP-0391 | Apr 2022 | Pride poster drafts Five drafts. The winner is on a wall somewhere in Olneyville still. |
1-color | 50 | ||||
| SP-0394 | Apr 2022 | Record store day posters Gold, again, against our better judgment. Sold out by noon. |
3-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0407 | May 2022 | Bakery rebrand labels New logo, new boxes, same pie. Clients grow. We grow with them. |
2-color | 1,000 | ||||
| SP-0411 | Jun 2022 | Pride poster series Five designs, five years running now. A fixture of the calendar. |
2-color | 600 | ||||
| SP-0423 | Jul 2022 | Summer reading posters For the library. Read 20 minutes a day, in fluorescent pink. |
2-color | 350 | ||||
| SP-0428 | Aug 2022 | Zine: Peony Riot The garden zine that sold out and funded the library's second shelf. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0438 | Sep 2022 | Zine: Descent, proof run The garage descent needed its own proof run to get the shadows right. |
1-color | 30 | ||||
| SP-0443 | Oct 2022 | City hall stairwell tour maps Officially we cannot confirm which stairwells are in it. |
1-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0454 | Nov 2022 | Small business saturday, year one The neighborhood run that became an annual system. |
2-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0459 | Dec 2022 | Bakery holiday boxes Boxes printed flat and assembled by the bakery. Smelled incredible. |
2-color | 900 | ||||
| SP-0476 | Feb 2023 | Zine: Twin Lakes #4 The loon argument begins. We did not know what we were starting. |
2-color | 180 | ||||
| SP-0492 | Apr 2023 | Bridge Report photo plates Six bridges, 300 prints, two inks. A book we are still proud of. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0508 | Jun 2023 | Summer series band posters Twelve shows over eight weeks. The drum never cooled down. |
2-color | 700 | ||||
| SP-0524 | Aug 2023 | Zine: Arcade Report Pinball field guide. The flipper illustration is our favorite thing we printed that year. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0541 | Oct 2023 | Gallery: Overpass arches Photo edition on cotton rag. Two sold before the opening. |
2-color | 100 | ||||
| SP-0557 | Dec 2023 | Year-end membership prints Annual member gift. Gold again. We never learn. |
3-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0574 | Feb 2024 | Zine: Swell The landlocked surf comic. Sold out at MoCCA-adjacent tables. |
2-color | 160 | ||||
| SP-0590 | Apr 2024 | Eclipse viewing cards Printed for the April eclipse. Cards for looking, not through, we checked. |
2-color | 1,200 | ||||
| SP-0607 | Jun 2024 | Pride series, year six Added a third design. The series has its own archive box now. |
2-color | 650 | ||||
| SP-0623 | Aug 2024 | The teal incident See journal. Posters faded, lesson learned, drum survived. |
1-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0639 | Oct 2024 | Zine: Night Garden Violet and gold linocuts. Gold behaved, barely. |
2-color | 120 | ||||
| SP-0655 | Dec 2024 | Bakery boxes, year three Added a fourth design. The bakery expanded. We printed bigger boxes. |
2-color | 1,100 | ||||
| SP-0672 | Feb 2025 | Zine: Fiscal Hill Bad financial advice in chart form. The library's most-stolen title. |
2-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0688 | Apr 2025 | Record store day, year five Gold behaves when you babysit it. We babysat. |
3-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0704 | Jun 2025 | Summer series, year four Fourteen shows. Rizzo ran nine straight days without complaint. |
2-color | 800 | ||||
| SP-0721 | Sep 2025 | Zine: Twin Lakes #5 The loon argument resolves. Everyone is upset. Perfect ending. |
2-color | 220 | ||||
| SP-0737 | Nov 2025 | Small business saturday run Twelve neighborhood shops, twelve posters, one template system. |
2-color | 500 | ||||
| SP-0753 | Dec 2025 | Gift editions, record night New record: 300 editions in one workshop night. June did not sit down. |
2-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0770 | Feb 2026 | Zine: Moth Atlas Vol. 2 The moths returned. The atlas doubled. The studio window is famous now. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0786 | Apr 2026 | Bridge report, revised One bridge was demolished. The map demanded an update. We demanded a moment of silence. |
2-color | 100 | ||||
| SP-0803 | Jun 2026 | Pride series, year seven Seven designs this year. The archive box has a second box. |
3-color | 700 | ||||
| SP-0819 | Aug 2026 | Zine: Seed Library Songs II The squash ballad exists. We take responsibility. |
2-color | 250 | ||||
| SP-0835 | Sep 2026 | Fall workshop posters The posters for the very workshops listed on this site. Meta enough? |
2-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0852 | Oct 2026 | Zine library 200th shelf print A commemorative print for shelf two hundred. There will be more shelves. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0045 | Feb 2018 | Valentine mishap, year zero The original crooked valentines. 'The honest edition' was born here. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0089 | Jun 2018 | Summer camp posters Four camps, four colors. Kids voted on the inks. Democracy works. |
2-color | 200 | ||||
| SP-0134 | Apr 2019 | Street fair banners Our first banners. The grommets went in by hand and by prayer. |
2-color | 80 | ||||
| SP-0187 | Oct 2019 | Pumpkin scale leaderboard For the farm stand. The winning pumpkin weighed 812 pounds. |
1-color | 60 | ||||
| SP-0226 | Jul 2020 | Poracle concert series Porch concerts, mapped and scheduled. The best summer of the bad year. |
2-color | 350 | ||||
| SP-0274 | Jan 2021 | Snow emergency cards Where to dig out your car, by street. The most practical thing we print. |
1-color | 500 | ||||
| SP-0305 | May 2021 | Mural dedication invites The silo mural got a party. We printed the invites on kraft. |
2-color | 150 | ||||
| SP-0336 | Oct 2021 | Ghost tour maps Nine stops, nine stories, zero ghosts confirmed. Perfect. |
2-color | 300 | ||||
| SP-0366 | Nov 2021 | Zine: Static Cling, proof The handwriting responses needed a real-size proof before committing. |
1-color | 25 | ||||
| SP-0418 | Jun 2022 | Pool opening schedules Every pool in the city, one sheet. An annual job since. |
1-color | 700 | ||||
| SP-0448 | Nov 2022 | Small biz saturday maps The shopping map that funded its own reprint twice. |
2-color | 400 | ||||
| SP-0467 | Jan 2023 | Zine: Orbit Studies, proof The atom rings needed a solo proof run. The physics dept noticed. |
1-color | 30 | ||||
| SP-0471 | 2026-09-22 | Priya | Riso | A3 | 2 | 65 | Fiber cream | OK |
| SP-0470 | 2026-09-21 | Milo | Riso | SRA3 | 1 | 200 | Bond white | OK |
| SP-0469 | 2026-09-20 | June P. | Riso | A2 | 2 | 90 | Munken cream | OK |
| SP-0468 | 2026-09-19 | Theo | Riso | SRA3 | 3 | 40 | Kraft brown | OK |
| SP-0467 | 2026-09-18 | Sana | Riso | A3 | 2 | 110 | Fiber gray | OK |
| SP-0466 | 2026-09-17 | Bruno K. | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 75 | Chip cream | OK |
| SP-0465 | 2026-09-16 | Ada | Riso | A2 | 1 | 180 | Bond gray | OK |
| SP-0464 | 2026-09-15 | Wren | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 120 | Munken kraft | OK |
| SP-0463 | 2026-09-14 | Chuck | Riso | A3 | 1 | 150 | Fiber white | OK |
| SP-0462 | 2026-09-13 | Imani | Riso | SRA3 | 3 | 55 | Vellum blue | OK |
| SP-0461 | 2026-09-12 | Otis | Riso | A2 | 2 | 85 | Munken gray | OK |
| SP-0460 | 2026-09-11 | Lena | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 130 | Bond cream | OK |
| SP-0459 | 2026-09-10 | Dov | Riso | A3 | 1 | 210 | Kraft white | OK |
| SP-0458 | 2026-09-09 | Grace | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 95 | Fiber cream | OK |
| SP-0457 | 2026-09-08 | Leo | Riso | A2 | 2 | 70 | Chip white | OK |
| SP-0456 | 2026-09-07 | Ruby | Riso | SRA3 | 1 | 240 | Bond white | OK |
| SP-0455 | 2026-09-06 | Emeka | Riso | A3 | 2 | 80 | Fiber gray | OK |
| SP-0454 | 2026-09-05 | Ingrid | Riso | SRA3 | 3 | 60 | Munken cream | OK |
| SP-0453 | 2026-09-04 | Ben | Riso | A2 | 2 | 100 | Kraft brown | OK |
| SP-0452 | 2026-09-03 | Sasha | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 115 | Fiber white | OK |
| SP-0451 | 2026-09-02 | Gil | Riso | A3 | 1 | 170 | Bond gray | OK |
| SP-0450 | 2026-09-01 | Talia | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 88 | Munken kraft | OK |
| SP-0449 | 2026-08-31 | Noor | Riso | A2 | 2 | 72 | Fiber cream | OK |
| SP-0448 | 2026-08-30 | Vera | Riso | SRA3 | 3 | 48 | Vellum blue | OK |
| SP-0447 | 2026-08-29 | Georgia | Riso | A3 | 1 | 195 | Bond cream | OK |
| SP-0446 | 2026-08-28 | Otto | Riso | A3 | 2 | 64 | Munken brown | OK |
| SP-0445 | 2026-08-27 | Halle | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 170 | Bond white | OK |
| SP-0444 | 2026-08-26 | Sana | Riso | A2 | 2 | 66 | Fiber gray | OK |
| SP-0443 | 2026-08-25 | Cleo | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 120 | Munken cream | OK |
| SP-0442 | 2026-08-24 | Ren | Riso | A3 | 1 | 85 | Bond cream | OK |
| SP-0441 | 2026-08-23 | Ines | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 95 | Fiber white | OK |
| SP-0440 | 2026-08-22 | Nikolai | Riso | A2 | 2 | 130 | Kraft brown | OK |
| SP-0439 | 2026-08-22 | Aria | Riso | SRA3 | 1 | 70 | Chip white | OK |
| SP-0438 | 2026-08-21 | Maxine | Riso | A3 | 2 | 100 | Bond gray | OK |
| SP-0437 | 2026-08-20 | Bruno | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 58 | Munken kraft | OK |
| SP-0436 | 2026-08-19 | Farrah | Riso | A2 | 1 | 75 | Fiber cream | OK |
| SP-0435 | 2026-08-18 | Gil | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 110 | Bond white | OK |
| SP-0434 | 2026-08-17 | Juno | Riso | A3 | 2 | 65 | Fiber gray | OK |
| SP-0433 | 2026-08-16 | Willa | Riso | SRA3 | 2 | 105 | Munken cream | OK |
| SP-0432 | 2026-08-15 | Devon | Riso | A3 | 2 | 150 | Kraft white | OK |
The physical ledger lives at the counter in a green notebook that has survived three coffee floods. Ask to see it. The entries are better in handwriting.
Your run could be SP-0853
The ledger has room. The drum has ink. The only missing thing is whatever you have been meaning to print.