OC Zine Fest

Unfortunately my bag isn't as cute as this one but this is the stuff I keep inside of it! Some other zinesters showed their bag essentials so here some of mine! 🎒❤️‍🔥📕

Finally! The pièce de résistance! Here are most of things I’ll be bringing with me to !
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Fanzines about karaoke, King of the Hill, dogs, Bravo’s Top Chef, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Colorful mini zines on many, many different topics. Perzines about mental health and gender identity. All kinds of shiny buttons, stickers, and zine kandi!
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If you see me at the fest, stop by and say hi! I’m really looking forward to tabling in SoCal again. If you can’t wait for the fest, you can find my work on Etsy - there’s a link on my profile 🥰 Long Arm Stapler signing off, but stay tuned for more IG takeovers from other zinesters leading up to the fest!!
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I mentioned in a story that I print at home and I wanted to go into a little more detail about that! I have three printers (an inkjet with a scanner, a laser jet workhorse, and an industrial copy machine).
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I was luckily enough to get all three for VERY cheap and to have the space in my house for all of them. They all perform different functions and are all essential to my zine making process!
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I usually make a mini zine by hand, and then scan it and make a copy on my inkjet. This way, I have a digital master for printing later. If it’s b&w, I’ll fire off a bunch of copies on my laserjet on fun colored paper. If it’s in color, I’ll make copies on my RICOH (it came with a bunch of backup toner and it’s generally cheaper than using the printer ink). I haven’t been able to configure my RICOH to print wirelessly, and it’s slow/jams sometimes, so when I print on that, I camp out in my (very warm) garage for a while. My perzines are all b&w, so I fire those off on my laserjet or RICOH as well. For fanzines, I’ll usually print a copy on my inkjet and then make copies on my RICOH. I don’t necessarily think there’s any actual rhyme or reason to this process, it just seems right in my head 🤪
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What are your preferred printing methods??
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