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Giclée (pronounced jee-clay),
comes from the French term for “fine spray”. A giclée is created
with digital printers using four tiny ink jets that spray more than four
million microscopic water-based coloured ink
droplets per second onto a sheet of fine art paper or canvas, spinning on a
drum at the rate of 250 inches per second.
A computer directly scans an artist’s original work to control the
jets – no printing film or plates used.
The final product is a superior, lush, vibrant,
near original quality textured art print. Canvas giclées
are printed on a high quality acid free polyester/cotton canvas. They are also sealed with a non-yellowing
protective varnish to further prolong the print life. The inks used are
pigmented, combined with high quality substratesto
make the prints water resistant and archival. Print permanence testing (measured at 450
lux simulating ideal museum and gallery
conditions) concluded that the print life will exceed 100 to120 years on
rag paper. Canvas results should be
similar though exact testing has not been attained. A giclée is the
highest quality of fine art reproduction available today.
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