What is Giclée Printing?
What Is Giclée Printing?
We exclusively use Giclée printing to produce our fine art, canvas and photographic prints.
Giclée (pronounced ‘Zhee-clay’) originates from the French verb gicler meaning “to squirt, or to spray”. Giclée is similar to your printer at home – but uses more inks to produce a wider colour range – instead of the 4 (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) used in most ink-jet printers and lithograph. Giclée uses light fast, pigmented based inks (we have two cyans, two magentas, yellow, orange, green and multiple blacks), the resulting prints have a much wider colour gamut and the colour’s themselves will last longer. Our printers also print at a much higher resolution – meaning sharper prints. Giclée can be printed on to various media, from textured and smooth fine art papers, to canvas and full gloss photographic papers.
The Benefits
- Giclée printing has come into its own over the last few years due to the wide range of benefits over Lithographic printing and other digital printing techniques.
- No minimum orders, we can print single prints on demand, as and when you need them – so you don’t need to order prints before you make a sale.
- Colour accuracy, we can make very fine, subtle adjustments to your image to match your print to your original artwork.
- Long lasting prints, the inks and papers we use are archival quality and tests show colours will last 100 years and in some cases longer.
