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More gocco!

By Marceline | September 20, 2007

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I just posted up a bunch of photos showing the process of gocco printing if you’re interested. It’s by no means a tutorial but it should help you see how easy and great it is. Not to mention clean. I was always getting in a mess at art school but I had nary a smudge of ink on myself or my home after gocco printing. I didn’t even bother putting any newspaper down. The other great thing aout the gocco is how you can do two colours at the same time. Registration has always been my printing nemesis but it’s not something you have to worry about with the gocco unless you are doing something very complicated. I heartily recommend the gocco. Yes, they’re expensive but screenprinting isn’t much cheaper and it’s a lot messier and time consuming.

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UPDATE: Riso, the manufacturers of the Print Gocco have now ceased production of the machines with inks and supplies to end in December 2008. See this thread on Etsy and the Flickr Gocco Group for the latest info. Prices are already rising and new and used gocco machines are scarce. Sad times.

Gocco information

» Gocco Flickr group (great discussion, advice and photos)
» Save Gocco (Lots of info and resources)

Tutorials

» Tutorial at Felt Cafe blog
» Tutorial at The Small Object
» Photo tutorial at Flickr (for PG Arts)
» Registration techniques for PG5

Online shops for gocco supplies

» Good-ness
» Print Addict Japan

See also my Tokyo Shopping Guide >>

Topics: Guides and Tutorials, New Work |

4 Responses to “More gocco!”

  1. Susan Bittker Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Hi - Great website! It’s inspired me to try Gocco, but where do you buy your supplies? I’m not that great at internet researching, and I’m looking for someplace in Britain which stocks supplies where hopefully I could visit and see it for myself. Many thanks, Susan

  2. Marceline Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Sadly gocco supplies are only available in Japan and the USA. The Etsy sellers I link to all get glowing reviews and there are other suggestions on the Flickr group.

  3. Liz Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 10:14 pm

    This is great - I love Gocco!!! I recently put a page of links to useful Gocco sites on my blog http://lizplummer.com/blog/print-gocco-useful-web-links/

    Marceline, I recently found out via the Flickr Gocco group that someone has started selling supplies in the UK (I live there too and so far have ordered from Nehoc in Australia) - http://purplegreetingscards.co.uk/shop_Gocco.htm

    Liz

  4. Half an Acre Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    This is exactly what i’ve always wanted but didn’t know it until I googled gocco and a link to you came up on page one!! fantastic! i need this method of printing! I can think of so many things I can do with it! Thank you so much!

    Half an Acre´s last blog post..Two new colours for you…..

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