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A studio run by printers

Overprint started in 2019 with one second-hand risograph and a borrowed room. Today four of us run it with a hundred and forty members.

  • A not-for-profit community interest company
  • Recycled paper, soy ink, no heat
  • Step-free, with a lower table at every machine
A wall of two-colour risograph posters in pink, blue and yellow

How it began

Jo and Sam bought a broken risograph from a closing school in 2019 for forty pounds and a van ride. It took a winter to fix and printed its first poster in March.

Friends asked to use it, then friends of friends, and by the summer there was a waiting list.

How it works now

We are a community interest company: every pound of profit goes back into the studio, the machines and free workshops for schools.

Members keep the lights on, print jobs pay the rent and the Zine Fair pays for itself, just.

Who runs it

Jo Marsh

Jo Marsh

Printer and founder

Fixed the first machine; still fixes all of them.

Sam Achebe

Sam Achebe

Printer and founder

Runs the print jobs and knows every ink by smell.

Rosa Klein

Rosa Klein

Workshops

Teaches zines, posters and patience.

Ellie Ward

Ellie Ward

Zine Fair

Eighty tables, six thousand visitors, one clipboard.

So far

2019

One machine

A forty-pound risograph in a borrowed room above a bike shop.

2021

The mill

We move into the ground floor of Victoria Mill in Ancoats.

2021

The first fair

Twenty tables in the yard and more visitors than chairs.

2025

Schools

Free workshops for twelve Manchester schools a year.