Lost a whole week of zine work because my cat decided to sleep on the drying ink

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Man I feel your pain, I had a stack of Risograph prints get completely ruined because my dog decided to lay right on them while they were still wet. What I started doing is keeping a cheap drying rack set up in a closet with the door closed, and I only work on one or two sheets at a time now. That way even if the animals find their way in, they can only mess up a small batch instead of a whole week's worth.

barnes.morgan16d ago

Three years ago my dumb cat Louie jumped right onto a stack of 50 screen prints I had laid out to dry overnight. I found him in the morning with orange ink all over his paws and fur, and he'd tracked it across the whole apartment. I lost about 40 prints total because the ink was still tacky enough to pick up every hair and piece of dust he walked through. I started keeping a cheap plastic garden rack in my bathroom with the fan on and the door shut tight, and now I only pull prints in small batches of 10 at a time. The rack cost me like 15 bucks at a hardware store and it's saved me more headaches than I can count. Animals just don't get that wet ink is not a bed.