Giclee Prints
Giclee (pronounced like zhee-clay) prints are changing the world of art, opening the door to reproducing recreations, limited edition art in mass-production of giclee prints in art galleries, and homes everywhere.
Giclee is a recognized fine art print making method just like serigraphs and lithographs, and even today as photos on canvas and canvas prints.
What is Giclee Printing?
Giclee is a French word that means on the same line “to squirt”. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with quality inks onto different substrates including photo based paper and giclee canvas. It provides better color accuracy than any other reproduction of art.
A giclee print is a developed technique to recreate artwork in an amount of mass quantities. It is a great way to reproduce artwork with clarity and unparalleled precision since no screen or other devices are used and so there are no visible dot screen patterns. Giclee printing gives the hues and tonalities of the original painting.
Giclee prints can be made of many various types of media, for example; paintings, inks, drawings and even digital graphic works.
Advantages of giclee prints?
Giclee prints are great for those artists who do not find it feasible to mass produce their work, but want to produce it as needed. That saves the artist on overhead and time.
With Giclee prints the art is archived and those archived files will not deteriorate in quality as negatives and film do. Another wonderful advantage of fine art giclee printing is that digital images can be printed to any size and onto different media depending on what the client is wanting.
Giclee prints use high quality ink jet printers to capture the very best quality of the media used. They are not the average variety that you will find in an office, they are professional-grade printers. The ink in these printers are not the regular ink either. Giclee inks are of light-fast archival pigments and no dyes. The application of droplet by droplet (400 million droplets per second) produces the fine quality print that is the next best thing to the original artwork.
Giclee prints also use high resolution scanners which are used to capture a computerized optical version of the artwork, that captures every texture and hue of color to capture the true piece of art.
Giclee prints has become the name for giclee art reproduction in the art world, and with the technology advancements, the demand and popularity for these prints has a growing potential in the future.