Gocco print
Dec 29th, 2007 by J. O'Brien
I brought in my Gocco print kit for a class project and was inspired to use it for one of my Hartford assignments. This is a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. I designed the image in Illustrator (bottom image) using spot colors then printed them out as separations. I was really
focused on aligning the different colors since this has been an issue
with my previous Gocco attempts. But of course this off-register one
turned out better. The moments of paper interrupting the color
alignments is what makes a print interesting for me so I need to find a
middle ground between alignment and mis-registration. I also think I’m
ready to return to a traditional screen printing system or maybe the
larger Gocco unit that uses screen printing inks so that I can more
easily mix colors. The convenient part of the Gocco system is the quick
screen making procedure. But since these screens are disposable, the
cost is a bit higher for the expendables.