Stencil:Roadmap

This page is a way to outline + plan what's coming next for this wiki. It is primarily used internally among the developers and active editors of this project (acting as a broad to-do list), but can be shared publicly to share what's in the pipeline.

Architecture

Area	Title	Description	Status	Lead
(All)	Style PageForms	PageForms are largely unstyled and unresponsive, they need to have better styles applied to them, both to improve readability and match existing site design standards.	On-deck	User:George Wietor
Places	Document form	Populate detailed information about using Form:Place onto Help:Using the place form. Link this help page onto the form itself and add light information (e.g. tooltips + descriptions) into the form itself. Also build out the form page before a place is selected.	On-deck	User:Robertbaxter
Places	Update form inputs	Based on the walkthrough at the riso gathering in Milwaukee (Jan. 2025) I want to update some field types to make them a little easier to parse (dropdowns + radios instead of comboboxes, etc.).	On-deck	User:Robertbaxter
Places	Help/info in footer	Link the places help page(s) into the footer (or other nav bar) on places pages.	On-deck
Events	Finalize instance definition	All upcoming events and new events added will use the instance model (past events may still be on the legacy model)—need to make sure that the field defintions for instances are robust/final.	In-progress	User:Robertbaxter
Events	Resolve conflicts between old events + instances	For the time being (until migration is complete) past events will not be stored in instances, however they must still exist as event pages. The Form:Event and Template:Event both have to be written to support both of these structures.	In-progress	User:Robertbaxter
Events	Re-import past events	Depending on how the conflict between old events/instance is resolved, we may need to re-import events (might be unnecessary though).	On-deck
Events	Switch event list to instances	Change the upcoming event listing on Events to pull from instances.	On-deck
Events	Update 'all' events to instances	Update all past events to the instance model as well—includingconsolidating repeating events onto a single page.	On-deck

Resources

Multiple resource pages need to be migrated from the old wiki along with resources that Anemone and Robert Baxter will shift from personal blogs + notes + threads into pages on here. Many of these will take the form of Category:Tutorials but there might be other resource types as well.

Title	Type	Description	Source	Status
Moving a two-drum Risograph	Tutorial	A how to for moving 2-drum machines (especially securing the MMU)—also includes instructions for disassembling a Riso to decrease its weight for stairs.	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]	Draft
Fix thermal-pressure motor lock	Tutorial	Instructions for swapping out the TPH gear on Z+ machines—this article is being adapted from an article written by Martin (RISOFORT) for the old wiki which focused on two-drum machines.	[6]	Draft
Screen printing with Riso stencils	Tutorial	Probably one of the more commonly used tutorials on the old wiki.	[7]
Drum color codes	Tutorial	Original is "Riso MZ - Ink Color Codes," written as a tutorial on reprogramming a drum—I think we generalize this and extend past , with a table with codes for all models.	[8] [9]
Ink tube adaptation for older Risographs Ink tube transfer	Tutorial	From "3d Printable Tab to use E series ink in GR machines" + " How-to: Transfer Ink from one tube to another"—generalize and include the tube transfer method as a section?	[10] [11]
GR/FR drum cleaning RP/RN drum cleaning Z+ drum cleaning	Tutorial	Consolidating and expanding multiple partial articles from the old wiki, but splitting into different types of drums (as that's the functional difference point). I think this should pair with a Transitioning a drum which has a section for the forced transition and one for the cleaning approach, the latter of which links to these.	[12] [13] [14] [15]
Fine adjust mode	Info	Not really a tutorial as this mostly explains what fine adjust mode is (though it should explain how to enable it and go over which machines have it).	[16]
Master removal transport band replacement (Z+) Master removal transport band replacement (RP/RN)	Tutorial	How to replace the transport bands (o-rings). I think one article should be generalized for all Z+ machines, with some extra notes on the slightly different procedure for the paper ejection side of two-drum machines. It should also include sizing notes for replacing these with generic o-rings. The RPRN band procedure is significantly different but it could also be folded into a section of this page, or as a separate page.	[17] [18]
Connecting an RP to Mac OS X	Tutorial	This page is a tutorial, but could potentially just live on the RP main page. Or we should broadly figure out how to deal with these little connectivity guides (of which there are many, with the potential for many more). One of the original articles is just an upload of the "Riso Digital Education Center" presentation on networking RP/RZ machines.	[19] [20]
Realigning the MMU on a two-drum Risograph	Tutorial	This is a very good guide of the simple way to do this (without fully removing the MMU), but is currently locked into images with the text included in them.	[21]
Manual drum removal	Tutorial	The original is partial instructions for manually unlocking a drum from an RP (which is more complex process than all other models). We can generalize this to just manually unlocking a drum, with sections for the 3 main different types of machines. This page should start with a big disclaimer that this should be done carefully, because there's a chance that your drum is stuck on something, and forcing it out will damage it (the full instructions for which deserve their own article—maybe Drum extraction).	[22] [23]
Replacing the separator collar (GR/FR) Replacing the separator collar (RP/RN)	Tutorial	A common repair that needs to be made for older machines, or else the separator needle is much more likely to catch on the drum/clamp. I consider this a high risk issue (and one that almost all RP machines need at this point in their lives), so it should definitely get an article.	[24]
Paper	Info	The original article is about selecting paper, and what stocks do and do not work with riso. If there is a general paper page on the wiki, it's likely this would be some of the key content on that page, so this should be a page section of Paper.	[25]
Print Gocco	Info	From resources for the Gocco, which probably belong on the main Gocco page.	[26]
Splitting color-separated PDFs with Acrobat and Distiller	Tutorial	From an article called "Extracting spot color separations from single PDF"—instructions on using Acrobat + Distiller (specifically on a PC) to generate black + white extractions. Since this article title also describes something that Spectrolite does we should probably specify this article further.	[27]
Ricoh digital duplicator cross reference	Info	Original article appears broken—it references a missing chart. If George still has this we can probably recreate it as a table.	[28]
Raster Image Processor (RIP)	Info	From a compatibility chart on the old wiki—this should probably become a section of a larger RIP page.	[29]
Riso color guides	Info	This one is odd, it's really description around a single file, a scan of one of the official Riso Kagaku color charts, uploaded by TXTbooks. I could see a world where there's a page that collects these (maybe more broadly Riso reference documents).	[30]
Riso drum ink labels	Info	I think this would be great to add as a resource/service page of some kind, the ability to generate printable color stickers. For now, the list of older style stickers leads to a broken file link, but the newer style is still working in a Dropbox link.	[31] [32]
Risograph residencies	Info	Probably deprecated with the new Place pages, but will transfer for now.	[33]
Drum compatibility	Info	Generally, I think drum compatibility should be listed on the model pages, but since there's so much confusion about drum compatibility and upgrades and such, it would be good to have a centralized page to talk about that as well.	[34]
Black	Info	Some good info here about how the line recognizes the special HD Black ink—which may live on the model page, but could also make sense on the Black page (as there are multiple HD Black inks).	[35]