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Giclee
Giclee loosely means spraying or squirting in French.
With the advent of digital photography and the slow demise of mechanical lithography, digital ink jet high-end printing is expanding exponentially.
Giclée combines the beauty and brilliance of this print media technology with the use of pigments and a variety of paper types from canvas to watercolor or satin papers.
The Giclée print is produced from digital image files that originate either from digital photographs, scanned and or computer generated image files
Giclée printing uses ink jet technology, but from a far more sophisticated color gamit than your desktop printer, With light fast inks and a far greater DPI (dots per inch) coverage than a
conventional printer. Fine art Giclee printing is fast becoming become the standard print of choice for most of todays professional artist and photographers world wide.
Digital Off Set
Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to be printed obtains ink from ink rollers, while the non-printing area attracts a film of water, keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.
Laser Print
Ink jet printers are the most common type of printing devices used in home environments, and they are also frequently used personal printers in offices. There are two key reasons for the widespread adoption of ink jet printers: low purchase price and very impressive image quality that equals or exceeds that of traditional photographic film. At the heart of an ink jet printer are a large number of high-precision microscopic nozzles which eject ink onto the paper. These nozzles are typically about 10 micrometers.
The ink jet nozzles are all mounted together on a moving carriage assembly that moves at high velocity (typically > 1 meter per second) back and forth across the paper. The nozzles are mounted about 1 mm from the paper, and ink ejection velocities are in the range of 5 to 10 meters per second.
The Process
- Digital Capture/Photograph:
- Color Managed Printing/Digital Image Editing:
- Fine Art Giclee Printing/Wide Format Printing:
- Fine Art UV Coatings and Giclee Finishing:
- Stretching and Framing:
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