Design your own posters, cards and art prints

Most things worth printing are for somebody else. RETROPRINT is a small studio for making them, with the look of risograph ink and paper grain. Start from a photo you already have, and take your time.

Free, with an account to keep your projects. Nothing to install.

Before and after

It starts with a photo you already have.

Every print in the sample book was an ordinary photo first. Pick one and look at what the inks did to it. If you like it, you can put the same design on a photo of yours.

Víkurkirkja: the print, 5 inks on warm stock
Víkurkirkja: the photograph it was printed from
Photo

Víkurkirkja 5 inks · 200 lpi · warm stock 1 / 33 Open this sample →

Cards and posters

Who is it for?

Start from a template or a photo. Then change the words and the inks until it looks like it came from you.

  • A Christmas card of two Santas, reindeer and a snowman around a tree in a snowy village

    Christmas

    A picture on the front, and a few words for them on the back.

  • Fireworks over a harbour at night, a small print on a large warm sheet

    New Year

    Fireworks in three inks, for the people you hope to see more of this year.

  • A red Chinese wedding invitation with a gold double-happiness character

    Weddings

    Invitations for the guests, and thank-you cards after.

  • A birthday card: "Happy Birthday" over a halftone photo of a smiling corgi, with balloons and confetti

    Birthdays

    A card for them, or the invitations to their party.

  • An ornate street lamp in two blues

    Festival nights

    Lamplight for a Mid-Autumn card, or a poster for the night market.

  • A lone red poppy in a grey field, two inks

    Valentine's

    One flower in two inks, for one person.

  • A postcard of Mount Fuji behind a corner shop, with a hand-drawn shooting star

    Travel

    A postcard home from wherever you went.

  • A business card printed with a repeating pattern of small birds

    Work

    Business cards to hand to the people you meet.

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Any size

From a pocket to a wall.

Real paper sizes, in millimetres or inches, or a size you type in yourself.

  • Business card 85 × 55 mm
  • Postcard A6 · 105 × 148 mm
  • Photo card 4 × 6 in
  • Invitation 5 × 7 in
  • Flyer A5 · 148 × 210 mm
  • Poster A-series, any size

From the gallery

Shared by the people who made them.

Every design in the gallery is free to copy into your studio and change.

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Think of someone. Then begin.

There's no rush. It's free to start, your photos stay yours, and so do the prints you make — commercial use included.

A fluffy kitten, yellow, pink and blue