Hurrah! at last my long lusted-after Gocco printer arrived, all the way from Japan. The seller, printaddictjapan - as found on Etsy, actually dispatched the item very promptly. It arrived in the UK almost 24hrs later but there were hold ups once it was in the hands of ParcelForce over here. Luckily that was all resolved pretty quickly and today it landed.

I’ve unpacked everything and read and re-read the instructions so I think I know what to do but am scared I’ll break the thing - it’s all plastic but you need to use quite a bit of force down onto it when printing. These things are becoming pretty scarce too so it wouldn’t be so easy to repair or replace. The fools at Riso, who manufactured these, stopped production last year so I’m now stocking up on all the consumables that are needed. One search on google for Gocco shows you there is a lot of demand for these simple home printing kits but I guess it didn’t make enough money for Riso and they will eventually die out altogether.

I hope to soon get started on new prints with this little beauty and will update you with my progress!