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Tools & Supplies

Our Shared Supply Shelf, Labelled

Tools & Supplies · · by · 1 min read · analog, film, photocopy, scissors, workshops

Our Shared Supply Shelf, Labelled

New volunteers always ask where things are, so we photographed the supply shelf and labelled everything.

We tested everything on the long table at print night, with real zines and real volunteers, not in a lab. Our criteria were simple: does it work, does it last, and does it hurt to use for an hour.

Cheap tools are fine for learning. The moment you notice a tool slowing you down, that is the moment to buy the better version.

Nothing here is sponsored. We paid for all of it, and some of it we paid for twice because the first one broke.

We keep a guest book by the door. Some people write their name, some write a poem, and one person drew the entire floor plan of the shop from memory. It is the best zine we have never printed.

If something here doesn't work for you, write in. Half of our how-tos have been corrected by readers, and the corrections are always better than the original.

Author

Dev Okafor

Draws mini-comics on the bus and letters them at the kitchen table. Believes every strip deserves a staple.

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  1. Jonah Mbeki

    The photos are great. Is that the laundromat on Elm?

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  2. Ollie Brennan

    Saved this to print out, which feels like the right way to save it.

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    1. Dev OkaforAuthor

      Thanks for reading. Let us know how it turns out.

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    2. Lou Ferreira

      Please send a copy when it is done!

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  3. Ben Achterberg

    We tried this at our library print night and it worked first time.

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    1. Ollie Brennan

      Please send a copy when it is done!

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  4. Marcus Yoon

    Saved this to print out, which feels like the right way to save it.

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  5. Ollie Brennan

    I laughed out loud at the part about the good scissors.

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  6. Aurelie Fontaine

    Honestly this made me dig out a box of my own old zines.

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