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Giclée Prints

Giclée prints are high quality on-demand reproductions made from original art or photographs printed on a variety of media including canvas, photographic paper, and art paper.They are becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely embraced by major museums, galleries, publishers, artists, and photographers for its exceptional quality, longevity, and flexibility of printing-on-demand.

The Giclée (jee-clay), a French word meaning “to spray or to squirt ink”, process was developed in the late 1980's as a digital method of fine art printing and reproduction. Sometimes referred to as an “Iris Print” (after the original machine that produced the print), giclée printing is the latest ground-breaking technological advancement of Fine Art Printing with a resolution much higher than traditional 4-color offset or lithography printing, and a wider color range than a serigraph.

With over 10 years of experience in color reproduction techniques and wide format printing, our images and prints carry all the magic of the original with the highest degree of color accuracy, exceptional clarity, fine detail and sharpness.

Using the latest color inkjet technology, your prints will have crisp contrast and rich intense colors with extremely fine resolution that has no perceptible dot pattern. Our prints are simply the closest duplication of an original artwork or digital image that is humanly, mechanically, or technically possible.

Preparation and Printing Process
Large format professional ink-jet printers spray billions of microscopic droplets of ink per second capable of producing a single droplet as small as 4 picoliters to create a beautiful, almost continuous tone reproduction. The result is an image as close to the original as possible. The resulting print has no coarse dot pattern, just richly saturated colors with every detail of the original image. Revolutionary super penetrating inks are engineered to deliver incredible print quality and color brilliance.

The artwork is either captured in studio or scanned from an original at high resolution. The image is then adjusted to reach the most accurate representation of the original art.

With a printing resolution of 2880, 8.3 million dots per square inch (an 8x10 image has 664 million droplets) and the detail and color vibrancy exceeds traditional printmaking technologies. Once file preparation is complete, a proof is provided. After approval, Giclée prints are printed within 3 working days (usually 24 hour turn around).

The digital image is then archived and stored at no charge, the artist has the advantage of printing additional copies on-demand, incurring only the printing cost.

Advantages
Giclée produced prints are completely faithful to the artist’s original and have the look and feel of original art. The latest inks used are very stable, giving fade and color shift resistance, and UV-resistance up to 70-150 years under museum archival condition, and 70 years under average indoor light conditions.

Additionally, Giclées offer the collector the same physical properties of an original painting at a fraction of the price. Giclée prints are advantageous to artists who do not find it feasible to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art as needed, or on-demand.

Additionally, archived files will not deteriorate in quality as negatives and films do, so digital images can be reproduced to almost any size ( depending on originally chosen scan resolution) and onto various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific client.

Another tremendous advantage of Giclée printing is that an artist or a photographer may have several galleries represent the same art and have the same image displayed at an art festival or special event to gain maximum exposure.

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