Weddingbee Blog

Just when the gocco was becoming my new best friend, it turned on me. I just spent the last oh, six? hours fighting with this stuff:

As others have said before, the white and pastel ink colors seem to be a little harder to work with than the others. They’re thicker, don’t print as evenly, and cause me a lot of frustration! I really wanted my RSVP cards to be light blue and navy printed on off-white cardstock. Here’s the design:
Even printed on our smallish 4-Bar sized insert cards, I thought it looked totally fine- in black ink from our printer that is. Here’s how it looked on the first gocco attempt, in the pastel blue:

It might be hard to tell here, but the crappy quality of the typeface there is not just a bad photo. Turns out this particular color doesn’t tolerate small fonts. I’ve had no problem printing this size before in the darker colors, but not so for the finicky pastel blue. Grrrr. (On second thought maybe I should have stuck with these, and just included a note that if you couldn’t read them, to please schedule an eye exam with your friendly neighborhood eye doctor- think of all the business I could have drummed up.)

So back to the drawing board. I increased the font size, tweaked the design, and burned a new screen.

Here’s a peek at try #2:

It’s readable! BUT in making the font bigger, I had to squish the writing a little tooclose to the edge of the paper. It was just as close on the other side, and just didn’t look professional at all. I did a few like this, before realizing it was going to drive me way too nuts to send these out as is. The trouble with Gocco is that you can’t change anything after you burn your screen. No design tweaking or respacing. I had to burn screen #3.Here are some of the final cards, which are readable, have print that fits on the page, and most importantly, are DONE.

Just to top it off, I accidentally closed the Gocco without paper in it in the middle of the process, forcing me to stop and clean the perfectly printed RSVP card off of the printing pad.

So you see, DIY isn’t all fun and games…which project of yours elicited the most curse words?