When you receive your orders from us, you'll notice they always come with a hand-printed folded card or postcard.
Those are made by me on one of my tiny Japanese Gocco printers, which use a system that's halfway between a screen print and a rubber stamp. The Gocco can be notoriously difficult to get a good outcome from, but the look is perfectly imperfect for stationery accompanying parts for a car first made in 1989.
I've been using Goccos for over 20 years, and have made myriad projects with them. A relative of the Riso (it's actually made by Riso) the Gocco is a 1980s toy made for children, also used by adults and now something of a cult item, and is a gnarly, unpredictable and joyful little beast which uses small screens that are exposed with old-fashioned flash bulbs, similar to the kind you'd get with a separate flash unit on a 35mm camera. Battery-operated, the flash bulbs are single-use, as are the screws, so this is robustly not a great environmental choice - but it is obsolete, with consumables hard to find - and expensive when you do - that would otherwise simply be landfilled. I've got a storage loft full of them, and alternative screen solution lined up for when that day comes, so I plan on printing for a good while yet.
A to-size original is printed by laser printer into white paper, which has to have a nice and deep, even toner application - this can alternatively be created to-scale using the carbon-based Gocco pens you can still find from time to time. A new screen is slid into the holder, then placed under the plastic window and behind a removable blue screen where pressure is applied to the lid - this houses the batteries - and the popping flash bulbs expose the screen. 
The ink's then applied to the screen one colour at a time and built up once each colour dries.
Smelling the get-high printing inks and running my hands over the dried print, knowing that someone else at the other end will open a parcel and do the same thing, is a sensation I never get bored with. It’s one of the things that gives me joy in a very, very screen-based, fast-to-make world. I hope that it does the same for the recipients, a hark back to the times when you waited for a return hand-written letter, knowing that the hands of the writer — of whom, it is assumed here, you were fond — had touched the very same paper.
~ Sarah
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