About Giclée Prints
The term giclée comes from the French word, gicler, which refers to the finished product of an ink sprayed printing process. This method of printing high quality fine art print reproductions, and the use of the word, distinguishes "fine art prints" from other commercial printing processes.
Many galleries and museums around the world accept giclée as high quality artwork for serious art collectors. The Getty Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, The Guggenheim, Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles and others have exhibited giclée prints and now include them in their permanent collections.
A giclée begins with a high resolution digital file of the artwork. The image can be either scanned directly or scanned from a high resolution photograph. digital file then adjusted, using Adobe Photoshop® software, to insure that the color balance and tonality match the original. Proofs are prepared directly on the media that will be used for the final giclée edition. Reproductions can be prepared on a variety of media and in almost any size.
Giclée prints render deep saturated colors and have a beautiful painterly quality that retains minute detail, subtle tints and blends. This technique is expanded by current and new technology, customized equipment, newly designed software applicataions, and many offerings of protective coatings to ensure quality standards for the serious art collector.
Giclée editions are prepared using archival pigmented inks and on archival media. These include archival watercolor paper, glossy paper and cotton duck canvas.
