Talk:Risograph

It is a mimeograph master pierced with a thermal head as the old Fax. In the 90 was a success in some countries to introduce it as a replacement for mimeograph Offset Table and popular religious markets, schools and others. Unfortunately, new technologies were rapidly replaced and market power waned with the competition from other manufacturers that offered the most competitive costs in the same market and with the advent of digital printing machines of low cost and high speed. Surguió, triumph and sold out in 10 years. The manufacturer of the Risograph lost market approach and failed to seize its opportunity The tone of parts of this article sounds like a manufacturer's brochure. Is this NPOV? Concept14 03:15, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

This is the bones of a useful article
Oddly I came to this article because I was explaining the RISO process to an officemate yesterday and needed to refer her to some backup material.

I'm glad this article exists, but it's got problems:


 * 1) Single source
 * 2) When I looked at Prof. Romano's text a lot of it appears to be quoted without critical analysis
 * 3) The claims about break-even copy numbers on a stencil (master) are a mix of Romano and possibly a manufacturer's sales claim (Romano says "20", I'd been once told "30", and the article also cites "50" at one point)
 * 4) Where did the claim about the spelling of "RISO" vs. "RISSO" come from? Any citation to "printing historian Rick O'Connor" 's work?
 * 5) Parts of it read like a marketing brochure

It's too bad, because the technology has a lot going for it when applied to higher-volume print jobs versus (or in combination with) electrostatic photocopying. Many offices choose photocopiers as a default, and they're unaware these machines exist.

For starters I will add single source and general cleanup templates.

Bikerbudmatt (talk) 14:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Honestly, I'm not even sure where to start here. They're workhorse machines that still seem to be the the best option for moderately large print jobs decades after their invention, but I have no idea where to find reliable sources about them. They just quietly sit in schools, offices and print shops around the world churning out cheap runs of documents. Where would you even find information about them that can be cited? - makomk (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2016 (UTC)