Gocco

Save Gocco? Again?

Posted by tina seamonster on May. 30, 2008, at 12:43 pm

This just in from Japan’s Corporate News Network:

Tokyo, May 30, 2008 (Jiji Press) – Riso Kagaku Corp. said Friday that it will discontinue shipments of its Print Gocco home-use greeting card printer in June because increasing use of personal computers has shrunk its demand sharply.

Cumulative sales of the Print Gocco topped 10 million units since its launch in September 1977. Sales of the product and related supplies reached 15.2 billion yen in the year to March 1994.

But sales sank to less than one pct of the company’s group sales of 92.6 billion yen in the year to March 2008, as home-use PCs and ink-jet printers have been popular since the late 1990s.

Riso Kagaku said it will continue sales of related supplies, such as inks, for the time being.

The company mainly sells digital printers to schools and public institutions and high-speed ink-jet printers to companies.

Wasn’t it just this time last year that we thought the Gocco was saved?

Stay tuned. And keep Goccoing!

Tina Seamonster needs to learn real silk screening already.

3 Comments

Rosalie May 30th, 2008
8:54 pm

The Panic! The Panic! My Gocco is the best thing that I own. They can’t stop making them….how will future generations learn about the coolnees? How will I replace mine when it breaks due to overuse? (Crawling under bed now to hide until this cruel joke is over).
Juliet June 1st, 2008
2:42 pm

Oh man! I NEED One!~!
Eve April 6th, 2009
1:03 am

I am giving up a brand new Print Gocco PG5 kit with extra bulbs, fabric paint and screen included. I live in Tokyo and bought this from Tokyu Hands. It was going to be a new spring project but I’m going away to Europe and not sure when this lofty idea of a hobby will realise.

Please get in touch with me if you would like one.
Sorry for the unsolicted ’sell’ here.
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