Save Gocco!

Print Gocco is a Japanese color screenprinting system developed in 1977 by Noboru Hayama. Resembling a toy, the compact and self-contained printer is clean, quick and easy to use. At one time, nearly every third household in Japan owned a gocco. In the 1990’s, Print Gocco slowly started to develop a following in the indi-craft movement, gaining notoriety as a cost-effective and efficient method of printing multiples. In 2005, just as Gocco seemed to be building momentum in the West, the plug was pulled. Riso corp.-the parent company of Print Gocco, claimed a sharp decrease in sales due to increased use of home computers was to blame.

Savegocco.com was started in 2005 by Jill Bliss in the hopes that a letter-writing/petition campaign would encourage Riso to reverse their decision to drop Gocco. In December of 2008, Riso shipped their last stock of supplies to loyal vendors and closed its doors on Gocco forever. In 2009, the save Gocco campaign was resurrected by Katie Stephenson in the hopes that fans could retrofit, reinvent or otherwise keep Gocco alive themselves (or with the help of some deep-pocketed investors.)

So click around, chat with fans, tell your Gocco story and most importantly think of ways to help save Gocco.