As I mentioned in this post, I am newbie owner of a PG-5 Gocco machine. Gocco is a self-contained screen printing unit. You can use it to both burn master screens and to make your prints. It’s damn nifty. I wanted one forever. I got one. Life was good.
Then Amanda at PaperLust rocked my world [...]
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As I mentioned back in May, panic motivated me to finally buy a Gocco printer. I bought it for $150 from Japan, which included shipping. To buy a new machine now, you’d have to pay anywhere from $295 – $485.95, not including shipping. Gocco printers are not going for much cheaper on Ebay. The [...]
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So now that I have a Gocco printer, I have been engaging in what must be a long-honored tradition of becoming obsessed with finding out every little detail about the little devil. I started making a list of all the cool web resources I found until my search came to a screeching halt after doing [...]
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My Gocco arrived from Japan yesterday and I’m so thrilled! I’m also nervous – I wanted one of these for so long and now I have one. And I have to use it. You’d think that this is a good thing. Unfortunately, I’ve never been very patient with learning new things. I expect to do [...]
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Last night I attended the monthly meeting of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont. Instead of meeting at our usual location, the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, we met at the Burlington City Arts Print Studio, (sorta) just around the corner. Lyna Lou Nordstrom & Katie Loesel co-facilitated a printmaking workshop on monotypes [...]
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As I discussed over the weekend, I rather impulsively (and smartly) decided to purchase a Gocco printer. At the time I didn’t quite realize that this was just the start of a longer journey back to printmaking.
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, I was a Fine Arts major – one of [...]
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It’s official. I am a panic shopper.
Yesterday the Riso Kagaku Corporation announced that it would stop making Gocco printers in June 2008. Many of you are saying to yourselves, “Whazza Gocco? Never heard of it.” Check out this link to the Gocco website – you can see one in all its plastic glory. Yes, it [...]
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