Inkling vs PRINT DOT

Inkling is a small press that lives on your phone. Pick a photo and it comes back as a numbered print: the fluorescent inks of a Risograph, the graphic bite of a duotone, the coarse dots of newsprint, the heavy flood of a screen print. ■ LAYOUT Put a few photos, a few words and a doodle on one sheet and print them in one run: they share the same inks and dots, so the sheet comes out as one piece. · One to four photos: drag, scale and rotate; frame each as a rectangle, rounded corners, a capsule or a circle · Crop to a set ratio (1:1, 4:5, 16:9, 3:1…) to print just part of a picture · Four type styles; a pen in three weights, solid, dashed or dotted · Words and lines can use the accent ink or one of the photo's inks, printing on the same plate · Four templates (Two capsules, One day, Photo strip, Postcard) or freeform · Change paper, inks or process; layouts stay in the Press Room to edit later ■ WHY IT LOOKS PRINTED Two spot inks cannot reproduce what your camera saw, so Inkling stops trying. Rather than force a photograph into two colours, it works out how much of each ink to lay down and where. Highlights are left as bare paper. The lighter ink carries the midtones, the darker one sinks the shadows, and hue only nudges the split — enough that a brick wall leans pink and dusk holds blue. Giving up colour accuracy is what buys the style. Ink load then has to become something a press can actually put on paper: dots. Each plate gets a grid of them, tilted to a screen angle you choose, and every dot grows with the ink sitting under it. Bring two plates' grids too close in angle and they beat against each other into moiré. Inkling hands you the angle and the ruling and lets you decide whether that is a problem or the point. Every ink means another pass over the same sheet. One plate settles onto bare paper, the next presses over it, and because they are all see-through, anywhere two of them cover the same spot reads darker. The first plate lands true; the ones behind it sit a few pixels off, each along the heading of its own grid, the way rollers lose their grip over a long run. Here that slip is a slider, and most people push it up rather than down. ■ SMART RECIPES Pick a photo and it's already a print. Inkling reads the dominant colour and pairs the inks itself: orange for a sunset, pink for a pink wall, blue holds the night. The default is the one you'll want to share — and everything stays adjustable. ■ 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 · Plate shift, 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. ■ THE PRESS ROOM Every print you pull hangs on a wall — numbered, with its inks, paper and settings frozen in the file. ■ IMPOSITION Gang a few prints on one sheet: a dozen fixed grids, or a freeform collage — drag, pinch, rotate, reorder the stack. ■ RECIPE CARDS Turn a print's inks and screens into a card with a QR code. A friend scans it and prints their own photo with your recipe. ■ 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 last plate settles ■ 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.

Your photo, freshly printed. PRINT DOT is a small print shop for your photos. The halftone dots you see up close, the color plates sitting slightly off register, the way ink sinks into paper: PRINT DOT rebuilds that feel on top of a picture you already have. ■ Eight dot styles Fine Dot for a delicate screen. Bold Dot for big, poppy dots. Newspaper Dot for coarse monochrome. CMYK Dot for overlapping plates and misregistration. Soft Fade Dot for a gentle bleed. Grain Dot for film-like texture. Line Screen Dot for a poster look. Mono Ink Dot for one clean ink. The same photo comes out differently in every one. ■ Choose the ink Eleven ink palettes, including Vintage Red, Café Brown, Ocean Blue and Mono Black. Quiet one- and two-color runs, or something loud and neon. ■ Choose the paper Seven paper textures: smooth, rough, matte, recycled, newsprint, kraft and aged. Each one changes how the ink settles. ■ Tune it by hand Dot size, screen angle, contrast, ink bleed, paper character. Move the sliders until it looks right, and compare against the original photo at any time. ■ Keep your prints Saved work lines up in the in-app gallery. Favorite it, export it to Photos, or share it straight from there. ■ Everything stays on your iPhone All rendering happens on your device. Your photos are never uploaded. No account, no sign-in, and it works in airplane mode. ■ What's free Four dot styles, five inks and three papers. Pick a photo, adjust it and save it without paying anything. ■ PRINT DOT Premium (one-time purchase) One purchase unlocks all of this: · All eight dot styles · All eleven ink palettes · All seven paper textures · Export at a larger size · No watermark on your work It is not a subscription. You pay once, and on the same Apple ID you can bring it back with Restore Purchases after switching devices.