What is giclee?
Definition: Giclee (zhee-klay) is a French feminine noun that means a spray of ink.
The term “giclee print” is used to mean an elevation in print making technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality onto various media such as water resistant canvas, textured fine art paper and enhanced matte papers. The giclee printing process provide better color accuracy than other simpler means of reproduction.
Giclee prints are created typically using professional 8 color to 12 color ink-jet printers. Among the manufacturers of these printers are Epson, MacDermid Colorspan and Hewlett-Packard. These printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine art and photographic markets.
The advantages of giclee prints are that it gives artists the chance to reproduce their art as needed, or on demand. Once the images are archived, copies can be made for a reasonable cost.
Another advantage is that the artwork can be reproduced at any size, giving the artist the choice of customizing the print to the customer’s needs.
The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art and photographic galleries.
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