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has anyone any experience with these systems?
http://www.gocco.com/prod.HTM
looks interesting. I'd like to know what the results are like.
garricks
04-02-2008, 05:25 PM
“Personalization Couldn't Be Easier. It's easy and getting easier for you to compose your own personalized material. Dozens of design books known as clip art are available to help you create just the right effect. And with more and more people having access to a personal home computer equipped with a wide range of type styles and graphics packages, it's a simple matter to sit down at the keyboard and fully construct a professional looking original suitable for printing. Select your paper, take out your Gocco printer and you're only minutes away from producing your own personalized, colorful stationery. ”
Oh, dear. So now people not only create bad design, they also can print it? Well, that should save the lives of some printing technicians!
jimking
04-02-2008, 05:55 PM
Who needs us any more? Just buy a little blue box and "BAM" all your printing needs are met. Life is good. :cool:
budafist
04-02-2008, 07:49 PM
Well, if all bad design was printed by bad design creators, then my working day would be a lot easier.
Virgo Nightingale
04-02-2008, 08:10 PM
This thing is like the Easy Bake Oven of printers.
sorry to upset you guys, the blurb is obviously aimed at scrapbooking/cardmaking enthusiasts. I meant as an alternative to screen printing (proper design, not clip-art paint by numbers). There seems to be quite a bit so decent work out there using this system (on etsy for example).
I'm basically looking for a novel way to print out a small run of unique business cards-this thing seems to handle metallic inks and pastels, my budget doesn't run to letterpressing or full scale screen printing.
Plus people have always been able to print bad designs-a blue box wont make any difference to that. I think the problem's not with the actual product but the way they've marketed it.
examples:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/1593834384_37c3057a94.jpg
http://glittergoods.typepad.com/glittergoods/images/juliewestbird.jpg
http://www.thewurstgallery.com/we_heart_gocco.html
budafist
04-02-2008, 09:48 PM
I guess the issue would be how long do those prints last? Are the washable? How badly do they fade?
The stuff in the gallery is very cute but they already look worn and quite grainy. Fine if you want that retro look. Not so good if your company is say a sports team.
yup, that's what I was thinking. I think they do hi-res screens which would help the grainyness but it prob also comes from the fact the machine stamps down rather than draws the ink on the screen. For the right project I think it might be a nice look. Another option I'm looking at is 'stencilpro', similar idea without the fancy machine.
It seems to basically be a screen that develops in the sun then you wash the unexposed parts away using water. So more like screen printing but less chemical/equipment heavy. Not sure how many uses you would get out of the screen though. (They both say they work with normal printing inks so the washability, fading etc would be determined more by ink choice - as far as I understand it)
budafist
04-02-2008, 10:03 PM
It looks very cute actually, but since I've no experience with it I'm reluctant to part with $400+ to buy all the bits to give it whirl. It's even hard to figure out if the "packs" are indeed everything you need to get started. It would be disappointing to pay for shipping around the world and buy the pack only to realise you still had to buy more parts to make it work. I imagine you have to use their brand of inks too?
Maybe when I win the lotto I might order one of those. It is very cute looking.
I see a few people on Etsy.com use gocco for their products. Looks fun.
that's basically what I was thinking, It's hard to make out what you need, plus it seems that the japanese company that make these are discontinuing it so it might be a case of spending all that money and then not being able to buy new screens and bulbs.
budafist
04-02-2008, 10:42 PM
True. Why don't we put our money together and buy out the company?
We can target every school and business in the world and sell them one.
lol, we'd prob have to but lots of their "things called clip art books" though to go with it. Seriously though, with the amount of people who seem to use these there must be money in it somewhere
budafist
04-02-2008, 11:10 PM
Maybe the mark up isn't high enough compared to the cost of making all the components for it. I don't think you could make the retail price too much higher either.
True, the bulbs and screens are single use. The stencilpro product seems to do the same job but uses sunlight instead of flash bulbs.