Fine Art Giclee Prints
WHAT IS A GICLEE?
Definition: A giclée (zhee-CLAY) is an individually produced, high-resolution, high fidelity reproduction done on a special large format printer. Giclées are produced from digital scans of existing artwork or from digital art that the artist creates in the computer. The name giclée is a French term that means to spray or squirt, and that is what the inks do when they coat the media with pigment. Giclées use inkjet technology, but far more robust and sophisticated than a desktop printer. The process employs six colors of lightfast inks: light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow and black. The ink is sprayed onto specially coated media, actually mixing the inks on the page to create true colors (our inks are called “pigment”)
How to distinguish a true giclée?
1. The use of archival pigmented inks. 2. The use of archival fine art papers (i.e. canvas, watercolor). 3. A printer with professional grade nozzles. 4. Individual color profiling for each paper. 5. The use of a RIP software (Raster Image Processor). 6. Who is making your giclées. This is a very specialized field and it takes an experienced printmaker years to achieve the skills to truly produce high quality work.
A high quality fine art giclee print will look almost identical to the original painting. Often times many can not differentiate between an original and a giclee print unless it is inspected from very close up.
Each fine art print is created from the original abstract painting of Nancy R. Hall. Every fine art print is individually color-proofed and hand-signed by the artist.
Giclée can be on fine art paper, canvas, or aluminum in a variety of sizes. Our canvas giclées are made with archival inks on poly-cotton blend canvas. They are UV coated with a low-gloss finish. Our giclées on aluminum are created with archival inks on aluminum panels. They have a protective matte finish suitalbe for outdoors.
Email us if you are interested in more giclée sizes or options.
Definition: A giclée (zhee-CLAY) is an individually produced, high-resolution, high fidelity reproduction done on a special large format printer. Giclées are produced from digital scans of existing artwork or from digital art that the artist creates in the computer. The name giclée is a French term that means to spray or squirt, and that is what the inks do when they coat the media with pigment. Giclées use inkjet technology, but far more robust and sophisticated than a desktop printer. The process employs six colors of lightfast inks: light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow and black. The ink is sprayed onto specially coated media, actually mixing the inks on the page to create true colors (our inks are called “pigment”)
How to distinguish a true giclée?
1. The use of archival pigmented inks. 2. The use of archival fine art papers (i.e. canvas, watercolor). 3. A printer with professional grade nozzles. 4. Individual color profiling for each paper. 5. The use of a RIP software (Raster Image Processor). 6. Who is making your giclées. This is a very specialized field and it takes an experienced printmaker years to achieve the skills to truly produce high quality work.
A high quality fine art giclee print will look almost identical to the original painting. Often times many can not differentiate between an original and a giclee print unless it is inspected from very close up.
Each fine art print is created from the original abstract painting of Nancy R. Hall. Every fine art print is individually color-proofed and hand-signed by the artist.
Giclée can be on fine art paper, canvas, or aluminum in a variety of sizes. Our canvas giclées are made with archival inks on poly-cotton blend canvas. They are UV coated with a low-gloss finish. Our giclées on aluminum are created with archival inks on aluminum panels. They have a protective matte finish suitalbe for outdoors.
Email us if you are interested in more giclée sizes or options.
