Inkling: Riso Print

Inkling turns photographs into real print: the fluorescent three-colour overprint of a Risograph, the graphic punch of a duotone, the coarse dots of newsprint, the heavy ink of a screen print. This is not a filter layer. Inkling simulates what a press actually does — SEPARATION. The image is split into single-colour plates by what each ink actually absorbs: blue takes red, pink takes green, orange takes blue, black takes the grey. What comes out is still the photo you took, not a picture forced into two colours. SCREENING. Coverage becomes dots whose area is proportional to ink, on a grid rotated to the screen angle you set. Put two plates too close in angle and they collide into moiré — whether you want that is up to you. OVERPRINT. Starting from the paper colour, plates press down one after another. Ink is transparent, so overlaps go dark. Each plate shifts a few pixels along its own angle: the first lands truest, the rest drift — exactly like a real press. The "flaws" of printing are the aesthetic. That's why misregistration is a control, not an error to fix. ■ WHAT YOU CAN TUNE · 1–4 plates, each with its own ink · 12 official Riso spot inks · Screen angle 0–90°, set by turning a protractor · Screen ruling 10–90 lpi, set by dragging a ruler · Ink density 10–100%, set by filling an ink well · Misregistration, ink spread, paper tooth · Paper: warm white, natural, pure white, kraft · Sheet: ratio, margin, corner — with clean, stamp-perforated, deckle or punched edges ■ THE PRESS RUN Pressing PRINT doesn't just hand you a result. The first plate lands, a beat passes, the second presses down, the overlap darkens, it settles. Every run is a numbered print in a limited edition. ■ EXPORT · PNG for sharing · High-resolution PNG at full size, for printing · Separation PDF, one page per plate, with register marks and ink values — ready for a print shop · Animation, the second the plates land ■ ABOUT YOUR PHOTOS Everything happens on your device. Inkling has no network access, no account, no analytics, and collects no data at all. Turn off the network and nothing changes. ■ ABOUT THE PRICE Inkling Full is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Buy it once and it stays yours.