
Jo Marsh
Printer and founder
Fixed the first machine; still fixes all of them.
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.
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.
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.

Printer and founder
Fixed the first machine; still fixes all of them.

Printer and founder
Runs the print jobs and knows every ink by smell.

Workshops
Teaches zines, posters and patience.

Zine Fair
Eighty tables, six thousand visitors, one clipboard.
2019
A forty-pound risograph in a borrowed room above a bike shop.
2021
We move into the ground floor of Victoria Mill in Ancoats.
2021
Twenty tables in the yard and more visitors than chairs.
2025
Free workshops for twelve Manchester schools a year.