Screen-Printing Made Easy with the GOCCOPRO

Q) The title suggests this screen-printing is easy, Why?

A) Traditional Screen printers served an apprenticeship so there was a large amount of knowledge and skill required. There were several reasons for this and the GOCCOPRO eliminates these skills that were requires. The first part of screen-printing is making the screen, which involves coating a mesh, exposing the image and washout with chemicals. There are quite a few steps that take a lot of time, space and there can be slip ups or mishaps at each stage. This is the messy part that puts people off before you have even started printing, which is the fun part.

The GOCCOPRO does away with this first screen creating stage saving the operator a large amount of time. It then skips all of the messy troublesome bits. It de-skills this first step and at the same time increases the quality of screen produced. Within an hour anyone can be printing an amazingly detailed digital image that previously would have been a impossible for the traditional screen-printer.

Our screens will change the perception of screen-printing and customers will expect to be able to get high definition amazing half tones and far more complicated artwork. This is really what makes the GOCCOPRO so exciting

Q) Do you still require a level of skill to print even with your easily made screens?

A) I would say you do need a level of skill but you can pick this up very quickly with a little practice and you are learning the fun part knowing that your screen is perfect.

For more information on the GOCCOPRO 100 please call 01341 654 4304 or e-mail sales@goccopro.co.uk

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A BETTER INSIGHT INTO SCREEN-PRINTING WITH THE GOCCOPRO

Printwear and Promotion Magazine asked Derek Muller of GOCCOPRO UK some questions about screen printing in the world today. We will show some exerts over the coming months.

Q) So Derek what first attracted you to becoming the UK distributor for the GOCCOPRO, an area of business you have not really been involved in before?

A) That's is a good question and I realize that today I would have the same answer now as I would when I started 3 years ago. I love its simplicity, I love its user friendly ness, I love the exceptionally quick turn around times, I love the efficiency of the whole system, I love how easy it is to create additional revenue and I love how a complete screen printing novice like me can print amazing quality images with just 10 minutes training.

What I didn’t realize was how the screen-printing business has become so entrenched in its ways. The need for large block solids simple silhouette images is what customers expect to see when screen-printing. This is because the original way screens are made can only make screens like this, unless you have an expensive screen making set up. This has a great look and is very much a style all of its own but with a GOCCOPRO you can really change the type of artwork you print. You can give your customers so much more

What is surprising is even when customers have a ground breaking system for screen-printing they tend to print traditional artwork.

Q) What would you like to see.

A) I would love to see more interesting GOCCOPRO halftone screen-printing out there that really makes you say wow! We have tried to make a few simple videos that show just what can be done Check them out HERE and then show us what you can do

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SCREEN PRINT WHITE ON BLACK GORILLA

GOCCOPRO Digiutal Screen print - In the beginning

Hello

This is the first post of our Digital screen printing blog were we will give you great insights into how easy, fun and cost effective it is screen printing with a GOCCOPRO system.

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We are starting off today giving you a little video showing how easy it is to take a selfie and then print it onto a t-shirt in 5 minutes. What I like most is the quality of print you can get so easily.

So that's all for today thanks for stopping by.

Derek

ARTIST SCREEN PRINTED T-SHIRTS YOU CAN PRODUCE SO EASILY

We are very lucky to work with some fantastic artists and this image was created by Laetitia Guilbaud. For the t-shirt we seperate out the colours onto three layers and turned all the colour blocks to black. We ensured the final layer of black overlapped the lighter colours. This is a great looking t-shirt, but I think I may change up the colours. Setting up the three screens delivered from the GOCCOPRO was easy and the complete set up took around 20 minutes. Hope it shows just what can be done.

 

GOCCOPRO three colour print

If you have a great bit of artwork you think would look good on a T-shirt please get in touch with us as we may print a few just for you!............Oh and also some samples for us.

EASY TWO COLOUR SCREENPRINTING 2013

This is a little rough video to show us printing a black t-shirt with a two colour design. It is only two minutes long and does not show the initial screen set up but some of our other videos do that. What this video does do is show the amazing detail that you can get from our screens with one click of the button.

You can screen print t-shirts just like this in your workplace or you can screen print t-shirts at home because this system is so easy to use

GOCCOPRO DIGITAL DETAILED SCREEN PRINTING

Here is a little photo of a print we did today during a demo for a new customer. They wanted to see how photos of famous people would look on t-shirts. We took a photo of Steven Gerard and printed him on a t-shirt.

Even I was blown away by the detail we managed first time with a little plastisol ink. I am constantly amazed by just how easy it is to produce fantastic prints with very little experience.

SCREEN PRINTING HISTORY- FILLING IN THE GAPS

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A fill blade or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink into the mesh openings for transfer by capillary action during the squeegee stroke. Basically, it is the process of using a stencil to apply ink onto a substrate, whether it be t-shirts, posters, stickers, vinyl, wood, or other material.

Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of polyester or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance. Ink is forced into the mesh openings by the fill blade or squeegee and onto the printing surface during the squeegee stroke. It is also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing. One colour is printed at a time, so several screens can be used to produce a multicoloured image or design.

Screen printing is a form of stencilling that first appeared in a recognisable form in China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD).[1][2] It was then adapted by other Asian countries like Japan, and was furthered by creating newer methods. The most useful advancement was also developed in japan recently and culminated in the introduction of the GOCCOPRO.

GOCCOPRO:- all the artistry of the original process with all the ease of a modern day digital system.

Today we are creating the screen printing history of tomorrow. If you buy a GOCCOPRO you will be involved in writing the history of the amazing strides forward in the advancements of screen printing thats happening today

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