Printing Napkins with a Gocco: Hoppily Ever After
Last Christmas, Liz got a Gocco machine and has been working with it on a few projects. For the wedding, one of the designs was to create our own napkins for use in the bar area.
The Gocco process is an interesting one. First off, you take a design that’s been printed either through a laser printer or photocopied (I believe that it requires carbon, and so ink jet printouts won’t work). Using two lightbulbs, the image is the burned thermally onto a screen. Ink is applied to the screen, and the Gocco machine then turns into more of a printing press.
Liz, adding the ink (we went through a few test screens). One of the tougher parts of learning the Gocco machine is that you have to use two bulbs per screen, and the bulbs aren’t re-usable. So if you mess up or if you don’t like your results… two more bulbs.
With the machine comes a few strips of adhesive, that help keep the ink stationary around your images.
After aligning the base and getting the positioning right, this is what Liz did over the course of an evening.
And another round of napkins, done the next day.
Closeup of the napkins.
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Hoppily Ever After: Liz and Felix’s Handmade Wedding Invitations
HO-LEE CRAP. That’s a lot of napkins!! I’m always so in awe of you, Liz. I swear. When it comes down to it, watch, I’ll end up outsourcing everything. Lol…
Marty J. (August 12, 2009 at 9:41 pm)