Outlet PDX: Hello 2026!

Happy 2026! We’re open again after our holiday break with a packed calendar of workshops, open hours 5 days a week, a table full of free protest posters, and prints and zines galore in our shop (including a few of our 2026 calendars left!). Our printers Janet, Corita, and Lil’ Tina got some TLC and much-needed rest over the break and they are ready to make your print dreams come true. Come say hi!

We offer at least two Riso Basics workshops a month if you’d like an intro to risograph printing! You can also sign up for one of our other special riso classes focused on digital illustration, hand lettering & sign painting, photography, book binding, cut paper accordion zines, and more! Find our full schedule of workshops and events here.

Have a project you’d like to print? You can sign up to print with us in person during our open hours 5 days a week or request a quote to print with us remotely. We also offer private workshops for your birthday party or team retreat, and one-on-one classes every week. Let’s PRINT!

Check out our 2026 workshop schedule! Come learn about RISO with us!

Cut Paper Accordion Zines for RISO Workshop

Saturday 1/24: 10am-2pm

Location: Outlet (2500 NE Sandy Ste E)

Create an illustrated, hand-cut accordion zine with shaped pages from start to finish! Learn how to make a dummy zine, create custom cuts, and print and assemble a finished accordion zine!

Hand Lettering & Sign Painting for Riso Workshop

Saturday 2/28: 10am-2pm

Location: Outlet (2500 NE Sandy Ste E)

Join us in a hand-lettering workshop where you’ll learn some time-honored sign painting techniques from instructor Kirsten Bauer to use in your riso printing practice! Explore hand-lettering & techniques used by sign painters to make letters POP! Learn the basics of outlines, shades & shadows, decorative and beveled letters, and how to translate these into risograph prints!

Digital Illustration for RISO Workshop

Saturday 3/14: 10am-2pm

Location: Outlet (2500 NE Sandy Ste E)

Come take an advanced digital illustration for RISO class with Outlet’s co-owner Leland Vaughan and learn all the secrets for using digital formats to bring your illustrations to life as riso prints! This class will focus on how to get the most in terms of overlays, color variation, and opacity from only a few inks—you can create incredibly rich, multifaceted images using only 3 colors!

4 Color Photo Process for Riso Workshop

Saturday 4/11: 10am-2pm

Location: Outlet (2500 NE Sandy Ste E)

Learn how to turn full color photography and other images into beautiful 4 color riso prints! Explore the history of 4 color printing and use of halftones in printmaking and go through the process of setting up a full color image to print on the riso as a CMYK process print.

We’ve still got a few copies of our 2026 calendar left! 12 artists! 24 colors! A whole year of RISO! Grab one before they’re gone!

Other tidbits of news:

Our full class schedule for 2026 is LIVE! Come take a workshop with us!

Group workshops not your thing? We have one-on-one workshops available every week!

Friendly reminder that we continue to offer fully masked appointments for printing, shopping, and drop-ins via our online booking form to keep our most vulnerable community members safe. All of our workshops and events require masks while indoors, with masks encouraged in our courtyard. We always have masks here if you need them.