{"title":"Zine Makers","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eZines have one technical constraint that overrides everything else: it needs to photocopy. The ink must be carbon black and dense enough to survive a photocopier pass without ghosting. The paper must accept ink without bleed and feed through a photocopier without jamming. Everything else is creative choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eStrathmore Sequential Art Bristol is the standard. It was designed for comics and sequential art, which means it was designed for exactly what a zine page needs — a smooth, dense surface that takes dip pen, brush pen, and marker without bleed and photocopies cleanly. We stock it because it's what the people who make things for duplication actually use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe De Atramentis Document Black and Deleter Black 4 are here for the same reason — both photocopyable, both archival, both well-behaved on Bristol.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHonest note:\u003c\/strong\u003e if you're making full-colour risograph zines rather than photocopied black and white, this collection is less relevant to you. Risograph uses its own inks entirely. The tools here are for the hand-drawn, photocopied, or digitally scanned side of zine making.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"deleter-manga-manuscript-paper-b4","title":"Deleter B4 Manga Manuscript Paper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe production paper for manga — what non-photo blue means in practice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeleter manuscript paper is made for manga production. The non-photo blue guidelines — panel borders, safe area borders, and crop marks — are printed in a specific pale blue that most photographic scanners exclude when operating in greyscale mode. This means the artist can ink directly over the blue guidelines with confidence: the pencil panel layout, the blue guidelines, and the inked linework all coexist on the page during production, but when the finished page is scanned correctly only the black ink appears in the output. This is not a trick or a filter applied after the fact — it is a property of how standard photographic sensors interpret colour wavelengths, and it is the production method used by professional manga artists in Japan. The 110gsm paper weight is chosen specifically to accept dip pen inks cleanly without feathering while remaining light enough to handle conveniently in a stack of forty pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eType A versus Type B\u003c\/strong\u003eType A has the standard production set of guidelines: outer border, safe area border, and crop marks. This is the professional production format — everything that a scan needs to be correctly trimmed and laid out, nothing extraneous. Type B adds further helper lines to assist with panel layout — horizontal guides at regular intervals that help maintain consistent gutter widths and panel heights without measuring. For an experienced manga artist, Type A is the correct choice. For beginners who are still developing a reliable sense of panel proportion and gutter consistency, Type B's additional structure provides useful scaffolding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deleter","offers":[{"title":"Type A —Standard panel guidelines. The production standard.","offer_id":53231826141512,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Type B - Additional layout helper lines. Better for beginners.","offer_id":53231826174280,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0935\/0709\/2808\/files\/DeleterB4MangaManuscriptPaper.jpg?v=1772808650"},{"product_id":"de-atramentis-document-black-waterproof-ink","title":"De Atramentis Document Black — Waterproof Ink 35ml","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe standard illustration and zine black\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor dip pen illustration and zine production, Document Black is the primary recommendation. It covers cleanly in a single pass, dries waterproof, and photocopies and scans without ghosting or bleed. For analogue zine work — dip pen on Bristol board, photocopy to reproduce — it is the correct tool. For pen and wash illustration — dip pen line then watercolour wash over the top — it is one of very few inks that reliably holds up under wet media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDocument Black vs standard black inks\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStandard dye-based black inks — Diamine Graphite, Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo used as a near-black — are not waterproof. Apply wash over them and the lines will run. Document Black is formulated specifically to be waterproof once dry. The tradeoff is higher maintenance in fountain pens — flush regularly to prevent the waterproofing agent building in feeds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Atramentis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53230690042184,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0935\/0709\/2808\/collections\/Zine_makers_Collection.png?v=1780400653","url":"https:\/\/inkwellartsupplies.com\/collections\/zine-makers.oembed","provider":"Inkwell Art Supplies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}