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At Spectrum, All our prints are Giclee Prints

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These are definitions taken from various websites of the term Giclee.

What Giclee Prints Are

Giclee (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a French word meaning "a spraying of ink". With the advent of gicl.e, the art of reproducing fine art has become even more precise. Giclee's have the highest apparent resolution available today -- as high as 1,800 dpi. In addition, since no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs and a color range that exceeds that of serigraphy. Displaying a full color spectrum, giclee prints capture every nuance of an original and have gained wide acceptance from artists and galleries throughout the world.

Giclee Prints

With much experimentation and consumate craftsmanship, the technology of computer prints has evolved into an elegant art form.

Giclee reproduction is created by tiny jets spraying millins of droplets of water-based printing ink onto a sheet of fine art paper. This spray of ink, more that 4 million droplets per second, whirls onto paper spinning on a drum at 250 inches per second. Hence the name giclee, French for "fine spray."
Precise computer calculations control four ink jets that together produce 512 shades of dense, water-based ink. The information controlling the jets comes directly from a computer - no printing film or plates are involved. The computer's information is scanned directly from the artist's original work. An art print emerges, lush and velvety, with the feel of a watercolor and the look or a serigraph or original lithograph.
This technology is the work of a tiny number of sopisticated art print production shops using high-quality digital printers. These artist/technicians have gone beyond all of the boundaries of current technoloy, cutomizing their quipment, creating new computer programs, even developing special inks and protective coatings - science, bent to the will of the artist.
From this marriage of art and science we celebrate the emergence of the giclee fine art print - a precise reproduction of an artist' painting with the qualities of an original.

What is a Giclee Print?

This is a new form of fine art reproduction.In the past it has also been referred to as an Iris Print due to the fact that the brand name of one of the first high end digital printers was named Iris. Giclee is a french term that means "to squirt" and that is what the archival, lab tested inks do when they coat the paper or canvas with pigment. This process, different than the traditional off-set lithographic prints artists have traditionally used to reproduce their works, gives a much truer to the original look. Actually, the printer is a high end, large format ink jet printer. So the image is captured, proofed and printed digitally. The inks have been lab tested to withstand normal home lighting conditions for anywhere from thirty five to two hundred years (depending on the ink and the paper used) before showing any sign of fading. Probably, a greater life than some original works of art.

What is a giclee?

Giclee is French meaning "to spray on" and pronounced, 'zhee-clay'

A Giclee gives the impression of an original painting due to the unique printing process, the high-quality art paper or canvas, and the enhancements made by the artist.† Each giclee takes on a different look because the enhancements can not be duplicated on every print. The giclee is an affordable option to buying the orginal artwork or a hand painted reproduction.
In art terminology, giclee applies to medium to large format inkjet printing on art material using archival ink with quality reproduction, color fidelity and long term archivability. The result is a highly saturated and dynamic color range that is greater than serigraphy, allowing for a reproduction equal to the original piece. The giclee print is then completed by the artist with hand-painted enhancements. A certificate of authenticity is issued by the artist verifying the number for each giclee print.
       

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