Giclée Prints

Giclée, a French word that means “spray of ink,” is a revolutionary new printing process that uses digital technology to create high quality fine art prints with the color saturation and look of an original work of art.

The term Giclée first appeared in 1989. It is a process of shooting millions of ink droplets per second through a microscopic nozzle, producing a seamless, continuous tone image. An image is first scanned and digitally stored in a computer, and then it is sent to a high-resolution inkjet printer for printing.

Giclée reproductions provide incredible detail and brilliance, and a three dimensional appearance. Giclées are printed on the highest quality canvas, watercolor paper, cotton paper and other substrates, using sophisticated calibration technique and years of experience in color management. Combined with the newest generation of Giclée printers using pigmented light-fast inksets to create stunning six-color hi-fidelity, this technique produces extraordinarily accurate reproductions. This technique also ensures each reproduction has a strikingly similar look and feel to the original work of art. The technology used in Giclée actually produces higher resolution and richer color than traditional lithography without the fading. In fact, the life span of a Giclée Print is 100 plus years.

Giclée prints in the Michigan Lighthouse series will be produced in a limited edition series. We have been working on this process and “fine-tuning” it for over three years. At this time, we have 21 images as “work in progress.” I hope it is close to completion. As the images are color corrected and finalized, updated information on their availability will be posted on the web site.

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