In the early 1990s, -published personal magazines made with desktop publishing software—began appearing in magazine racks.

 The appropriate response is Zines. Zines are usually made by physically cutting and sticking content and pictures together onto an ace level for photocopying, yet it is likewise basic to deliver the ace by writing and organizing pages on a PC. The finished result is normally collapsed and stapled. Zines can be printed and bound in any way. Counterbalance printing is a generally basic contrasting option to photocopying, however there is some debate among zine scholars with respect to whether professionally printed items might be characterized as zines.