What
Is a Giclee Print?
Recent
advancements in printing technology have resulted in a reproduction process
with incredible resolution. An "Iris Print" or "Giclee" (pronounced jeek-lay)
is as rewarding visually as it is technically amazing. For brilliant, exquisite
color and razor sharp detail it is unsurpassed. This type of art reproduction
is quickly becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely
embraced for its quality by major museums, galleries, publishers and artists.
A giclee print is simply the closest duplication of an original artwork
that is humanly, mechanically or technically possible.
To explain
briefly, the giclee printmaking process involves a particular printer,
the IRIS 3047, which has been modified for the precision of fine art printing.
From each of four nozzles, more than a million droplets of ink the size
of a human red blood cell are sprayed on a canvas or watercolor paper spinning
on a drum at a speed of up to 150 feet per second!
The resulting
print has no perceptible dot pattern, an endless array of richly saturated
color, and every nuance of the original image.
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