Full overlap, 7mm slip
The purple crescent is doing all the work. Neither ink is that colour.
MIS REGISTER
A quarterly about the beauty of the imperfect pull. Two drums, two inks, one sheet of paper that never quite sits still — and the halo of colour that happens when the second plate lands a few millimetres late.
Separation sheet
Two drums, no trapping
Every page in this issue is separated into exactly two channels. Nothing is trapped, nothing is choked. Where the channels overlap, the ink films multiply and make a third colour we never mixed.
| Channel | Ink | Hex | Density | Drum | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Fluorescent Pink | #FF3D6E | 92% | 1st | Lays down wet, offsets onto sheet 2 |
| B | Federal Blue | #1440D6 | 85% | 2nd | Drifts +7mm x, +5mm y over the run |
| A×B | Overlap (multiply) | #4B1470 | — | — | Never mixed; produced on the sheet |
| — | Stock: Munken Pure 120 | #E2D9C7 | 0% | — | Grain long, uncoated, thirsty |
Registration console
Set the slip
Issue 14 · contents
The run list
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14.01
The Drum Remembers Yesterday
Why the first forty sheets of any run are wrong, and why the shop keeps them anyway.
Essay · 6pp -
14.02
A Field Guide to Roller Marks
Twelve defects photographed at 1200dpi, named, and quietly recommended.
Plates · 12pp -
14.03
Ilse Vandermeer on Deliberate Error
The Rotterdam printer who charges extra for a misregistered edition, in conversation.
Interview · 8pp -
14.04
Paper That Drinks
Uncoated stock, humidity, and the slow stretch that ruins registration by sheet 200.
Technical · 4pp -
14.05
Two Colours Are Enough
An argument against process printing, illustrated entirely in pink and blue.
Manifesto · 3pp
Proof strip · scroll sideways
Overlap studies
Hard edges betray drift
Straight lines are the cruellest test — a curve hides a millimetre, an edge never does.
Banding through the run
Sheet 12 against sheet 212. Same file, four millimetres of difference.
Deliberate mismatch
When the plates never agreed to begin with, drift reads as intent.
Zero-slip control
Our reference pull, printed on a cold drum at six in the morning.