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The studio

DRUM is a risograph press and small publisher in Rotterdam. We print posters, zines, books and record sleeves one colour at a time: soy ink, pushed through a stencil wrapped around a spinning drum.

Ink drums
9
Passes per colour
1
Largest sheet
A3
Prints since 2014
412
How the studio works
Core inks

Riso ink lives in drums, one colour each. We keep nine in rotation and print them over each other to make the rest. This block is printed in the ninth, Medium Blue, and each ink below is printed over it.

All nine inks
  1. 01Fluo pink
  2. 02Yellow
  3. 03Orange
  4. 04Teal
  5. 05Black
Selected prints The full index
Poster

DRUM × Oude Haven Market — Sunday Market. A pink sunrise over yellow, every week since 2023.
Poster

DRUM × Harbour Choir — Winter Songs. Teal singers, red song, brown where they cross.
Timetable

DRUM × North Bank Ferry — Ferry Times. Three thousand pocket timetables.
Cards

DRUM × Radio Dijk — Listener cards. 88.4 in pink, red on the dial, plum on the bars.
How a print happens
  1. 01MasterA thermal head burns the artwork into a stencil film, one master per colour.
  2. 02YellowLightest ink first: a halftone floor for everything after it.
  3. 03PinkLOUD, in fluorescent pink. Over the yellow it prints red.
  4. 04BlueQUIET, in Medium Blue. Where it lands on yellow, green.
  5. 05KeyBlack type last, so the small print stays sharp.
Printed for
  • Moestuin Collective
  • Lido Noord
  • Kanaal Records
  • North Bank Ferry
  • Zine Library Rotterdam
  • Oude Haven Market
  • Filmhuis Kiem
  • Poetry Circle 010
  • Bakkerij Ooft
  • Radio Dijk
  • Museum Night West
  • Tuin & Tafel
  • Vinyl Sundays
  • Harbour Choir
  • Fietsfabriek
  • and 212 others

“The pink never comes out the same twice. That’s why people keep the print.”

Mara Oyelaran — founder, DRUM
Open press nights

First Thursdays

Bring a file, leave with fifty prints. €25 covers a master, two inks and paper. Six places a night, 18–22h, tea included.