Gocco/Screen Assistance
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- seansuth
Hi all,
Me and a couple buddies are starting up a studio on the side. We have established the look and feel for our logo, website and printed materials but we are now down to production. Since we are just starting out, we are trying to figure out the most affordable options for printing, which is why I am reaching out to QBN.
We would like to get our collateral screen printed but am unsure if which route to go. We could send these out to a professional printer and spend some cash or try to spend little bit of cash and do it ourselves. I hear that Gocco machines are best used for smaller printing projects but we do not have a machine. Is there a possibility a fellow QBN'r could make a screen for us and ship it? Or if you make a Gocco screen can you only use it with a Gocco machine? But, I also guess that I could just get a high mesh 8.5 x 11 screen and take it from there...
If anyone could help me with this or has any comments/suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it, thanks in advance!
- Llyod0
I thought they stopped making those.
- skwiotsmith0
I think officially they stopped making the Print Gocco. Or at least stopped shipping items to the USA.
As for the mesh screens, I believe they only come in B5 & B6 sizes, which really don't hit the 8.5x11 that you're after. It kind of sucks, cos I wish there was an 8.5x11 screen...
- Greedo0
gocco screens are useless without a gocco machine, they have a tabbed cardboard border...
i guess you could jury rig something to hold it in place, but results would be questionable.
and they did stop selling their products in North America, supplies are running short...
- seansuth0
Well I knew that the screens came in smaller sizes which would work best since I would be printing business cards, envelopes etc. I just haven't seen normal screen printing screens smaller then 8.5x11. I was just surfing Ebay and found some Gocco Machines but they aren't cheap...but then again, it'd be cheaper then getting them done professionally.
*sigh*
- Greedo0
what about hitting up a nearby art college/ printmaking workshop/ arists' coop etc, to see if anyone would do the job for you for cheap? Or let you use their equipment to do it yourself?
- seansuth0
Yeah that's true. I just wanted to see if maybe there were a couple other alternatives...
- DrBombay0
Seff did a pretty nice screen printing how-to recently:
- Greedo0
Is that bonseff's voice? I was secretly hoping he'd have a thick texan drawl going on....