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What is Giclée Fine Art
Reproduction Printing?
We Only Print on the Finest Quality Canvas and Fine Art Paper
 Giclée is a sophisticated process of making fine art prints from a digital source using professional ink-jet printers. Giclées were most often original reproductions of painted works. Giclée (pronounced gee’clay) is a French term meaning to spray or squirt, which is how an inkjet printer works. However, it is not the same as a standard desktop inkjet printer.
Now the term, used internationally, has come to mean something more than just a typical inkjet print. True giclée prints have two widely accepted standards that differ from typical inkjet prints. First, they must be printed with pigmented inks not dye inks found in many inkjet printers. Secondly, the media printed on is usually 100% cotton rag paper, cotton canvas or fine art watercolor or art papers.
Prints made on the more typical inkjet media including glossy, semi-gloss, and luster type coated papers do not fit into the class of papers used for true, fine art giclée prints. The combination of these two criteria for giclees helps to guarantee the longest-lived, archival-quality prints available from current technology. Images are generated from high-resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclée printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction.
Another tremendous advantage of giclee printing is that digital images can be reproduced to almost any size and onto various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific client. The quality of the giclée print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries. Our giclée prints are printed on the top of the line, professional grade, large format Epson printers and our inks have an archival rating of 90-150 years under normal viewing conditions. We are constantly requesting the finest materials in paper and canvas from our suppliers to insure that what we print on and what you receive is nothing but the best available.
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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. Once an image is digitally archived, additional reproductions can be made with minimal effort and reasonable cost. The prohibitive up-front cost of mass production for an edition is eliminated. Archived files will not deteriorate in quality as negatives and film inherently do.
