No. 1. Gocco is similar to screen printing except the image is burned onto the screen through carbon based imagery, such as a photocopy or printout or by drawing directly onto the screen using one of those Gocco pens. However you want to make the magic happen is up to you. We have a little black and white printer and it's been working great so far.
No. 2. After you burn the screen it looks like this. We usually put foam blockers around the image to keep the ink where we want it.
No. 3. Mix your colors and put them on the screen. Here's the first color, a lovely blue.
No.4. Put the screen back in the gocco and start printing! Do a test print to make sure everything prints a-ok.
No.5 Let your first color dry.
Voila, the prints after the second color, all ready to be trimmed out signed.
8 comments:
Yay, I love seeing other people with the same Gocco Arts model as mine!
I'd love to know where you got your big Gocco!
As always, I love your work...do you only work in gocco, or do you screenprint too?
Thanks Wonting! ;-)
Kristi- We got our Gocco from good old Paper Source. Looks like they are out now, but you can be put on the wait list. That's what we did and we snagged one as soon as we got the email letting us know they were back in stock. Ebay is also a good place to look for them as well as Criagslist.
Bethany- Thank you! We did used to screenprint, before we moved to SF when had a much larger space then we currently do now. We want to figure out a way to do it soon though, hopefully we'll have some screenprints for the Outre show. :)
What sort of ink are you using? Does regular silkscreen ink work on the Gocco screens?
wow, beautiful work and thanks for the demo! what size printer are you guys using... i'm finding a lot of B6 gocco sets -- is that the size you guys are using?
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Can I ask which printer model you use?
We have had a heck of a time getting clean screens to burn, especially on large areas of color, it ALWAYS results in a splotchy print, and we have tried about anything that anyone has recommended, and I am thinking about trying to buy a home printer instead of using the kinkos copiers.
When we recently received your whale print in the mail [LOVE IT!!!!!] I know my sweetie and I were both secretly thinking the same thing: that gorgeous sea of blue- look at it, so solid and splotch free.......
When you print a solid field of color like that, is it solid black, a grey tone, or some sort of half tone pattern?
We LOVE LOVE LOVE your work!!!!
Thanks!!!!!
Arlo-We use gocco ink and we're not sure if you can use silkscreen ink. We think you might be able to- if we find out that you can we'll post something about it. It'd be great if you could.
Dontyou-We use the PG Arts gocco which prints up to 6.85" x 9.93" which is pretty sweet. :) I believe paper source has them.
js- We had lots and lots of problems with solids at first and I think it was due to the fact that we were getting our printouts from kinkos. It was so frustrating! Some people have no problems with kinkos but our solids always printed really badly. We got a b+w brother 2040 printer just for gocco and it works great and it was under $100. Since then our large solids have been printing fantastic. Other things that help are putting a piece of card stock under your printout when you burn the screen and holding down a bit longer. Hope that helps and you start getting some beautiful solids!
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