What is Gocco?

So you just found your way here, what is exactly is the Gocco?

Well kids here how it goes... in the 1970's Noboru Hayama, a printer and the japanese inventor of the "print gocco" system, wished to develop a quick and easy household color printing system. Cleverly combining the basic principles of screen printing and rubber-stamping, "print gocco" is a clean, easy, and fully self-contained compact system that exposes and prints all in one unit. using flash bulbs similar to those found in old cameras, an original image is thermally imprinted on a master screen. next, colorful prints are made by pressing the ink-applied master screen against a sheet of paper placed on a sponge pad.

the simplicity in making a screen, and the low cost of production makes the gocco system attractive to professional screen printers, artists, and designers, and enables even a complete novice to begin printing immediately....(read more)

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Watch the Gocco in action !!!

Download this Gocco Instructional Video ( 150 MB - MPG Format )

Print Gocco - the mania that has been a hit success in japan, for years is now here in the states. As we LOVE the gocco, we offer a place for you as an artist to display, sell, and get creative ideas to use your Gocco!