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Hopefully I can answer some of your gocco questions :)

Gocco ink is a thick ink... think of a substance like oil paint. Your "printing" of the ink goes on in a screenprinting application with a stamping motion. Therefore, you depending on the substance you are printing on, there may be some very slightly raised ink sections. However, if the paper is porous, there is no raised ink. The only way to get a truly raised ink application is through thermography or embossing powder. Letterpress "kisses" the paper and, again, and actually presses into it just slightly.

Think of gocco as a fancy customizable ink stamp or mini-screenprinter. You can use glitter inks, opaque ink colors (like white), and print on lots of surfaces. You can't do this with a standard printer. There are certain things that a laser printer is better suited for than a gocco... like fine writing or larger designs. And, there's certain things, like gold ink, that a printer could never do.

The YUDU machine is just a large format screen printer. They don't have fine screen mesh (like the grade used in gocco) yet, but will shortly. You'd be printing on a larger area, and the costs are high just like gocco even though you can "reuse" the screens. Anything that you can do with a typical screenprint, you can do with yudu.

Does that help? Let me know if you have any other questions... I always feel guilty/responsible for anyone who wants to jump into the gocco world, so I'm always willing to help out!