Two-ink engine
Pick any two spot colors. Nimbus overprints them like a real riso drum — multiply blends and all.
Issue Nº 07 · Fresh off the drum
Nimbus — a print studio for the web
Print the web like a five-cent zine.
Two spot inks, real grain and honest misregistration — rendered straight to the browser. No press, no plates, no apologies.
What's in the drum
Three tricks off the press
Every layer behaves like real ink on real paper — smudges included.
Grain you can feel
Paper noise is baked into every surface. Your page will never look suspiciously clean again.
Misregistration dial
Nudge layers a few pixels off register. Badges tilt, shadows drift. Imperfection is a feature.
How it works
From blank paper to zine
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Pick your inks
Two drums, any colors from the riso swatch book. Preview every overprint before you commit.
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Drop in your content
Paste in words, links and pictures. Nimbus lays them out with the patience of a stapler.
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Ship the zine
Publish to a URL or export press-ready PDFs. Grain, tilt and smudge preserved forever.
Field notes
Word from the print floor
Mo Okafor
Art director, Fold Press
"Nimbus is the only web tool my laser printer is jealous of. The misregistration dial alone is worth the twelve bucks."
June Park
Zine maker, Wet Ink Club
"My last issue looked so good in dark mode that a stranger asked which fluoro ink I used. It was CSS, Janet. It was CSS."
The rate card
Pay per press run
Photocopy
$0/mo
- One ink, one page
- Watermark on the fold
- Community drum
Most popular
Riso Standard
$12/mo
- Two inks + overprint
- Grain pass included
- Custom zine domain
- PDF separations export
Fluoro Pro
$29/mo
- Unlimited spot inks
- Black-paper mode
- Press queue priority
- Crew of five
Loose ends
Freshly stapled questions
Do I need a real risograph printer?
Nope. Nimbus fakes the chemistry in the browser — multiply blends, spot inks, grain and drum dust included. If you do own a riso, export the separations and feed it real paper.
What happens to my inks in dark mode?
They stay fluoro-bright. Only the paper turns black and the overprint blend flips from multiply to screen — exactly like printing on black stock.
Can I print my zine on actual paper?
Yes — every issue exports as press-ready PDFs with one separation per ink. Crop marks on, apologies off.
Press list
Get Issue Nº 08 before it's stapled.
One email per press run. No spam — we can barely afford the ink.