What is this you say? What is this gocco thing? Well, if all works out it is the solution to the rest of the invitation dilemma. I spent last evening googling gocco invitations since a. I have one, and b. I have already taken a little workshop and know the basics of gocco printing. Oh, and at only 65 or so invitations it isn't an impossible task.
We live in a small town and for procrastinators like me it isn't easy to run out and find last minute supplies. As you know, the images for the invitations were printed by the very talented Lori Michelon last weekend. Since then I've been pondering the best way to include the text of the invitation, along with the response card and an info card. I haven't ordered paper so there was that, too. And we're on a budget.
Google gocco and you'll find a lot of information, including a priceless video tutorial on YouTube with some rockin' music and incredible acting (oh, and valuable how-to). You'll also find testimonials from other crazy DIYer brides who elected to go this route, like this one here.
One of my favorites, and one with THE most helpful hints, is here.
This is what a gocco setup looks like and I don't think this particular model is being made anymore (and mine looks a bit different)... like polaroids it has gone the way of the dinosaurs and there are just a few dedicated gocco-lovers out there keepin' it alive. I understand supplies are hard to find and so my gocco printing experience may be limited, but there are websites like this one - Save Gocco -working to keep users in touch and able to find the last of the special flash bulbs on ebay and etsy.
Although I'm not an avid gocco user (yet), nor do I follow the blogs about the difficulty in finding supplies, I've read enough to realize that there is a new player out there in the world of personal printing, and that is the Yudu. The gocco uses a flash system and heat to react with carbon-based masters to produce a screen, and the Yudu uses light to create the screens, much like traditional silk-screening. It might the the way to go in the future if I decide that I just have to keep printing out invitations. Unlikely, since after this wedding we'll go back to our old ways of just calling people on the phone to invite them over.
So... Photoshop is open and the drafts of the invitation text, response card and info card are up. Paper needs to be torn. I think I'm going to use hot-press watercolor paper and tear it down myself, again because I have a stash of paper, I don't have time to order and this needs to get done NOW. This weekend. I'll take lots of photos and you can share my printing experience - whoo hoo!
One more nice image to get me fired up (and it has a mountain on it!) from here.
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