[1] The system was developed for the Japanese custom of sending New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) to friends and relatives.

The name and toy-like design of Print Gocco stem from Riso Kagaku president Noboru Hayama's belief in the importance of play.

The materials included proprietary blank screens, consisting of thin layer of thermoplastic bonded to a mesh, held in a cardboard frame and covered with transparent film.

[3] Print Gocco screens are constructed of a cardboard frame sandwiched between a thin thermoplastic sheet and a perforated mesh.

As personal computers and email became increasingly popular throughout the 1990s, the Japanese market for physical New Year's postcards saw considerable loss.

[4] In December 2005, Riso Kagaku Corporation announced it would end production of the Print Gocco system due to low sales.

A spokesperson for the company stated that "[Print Gocco] sales were essentially a rounding error to a multinational with revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars.