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GICLEES

?DEFINITION: What is a giclee

Giclee  is a neologism for the process of making fine art print from a digital source. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.

What are the advantages of giclee prints?

Giclees printers use archival inks which make the archival properties of giclees much higher than lithography or silkscreen prints. Pigmented inks we use in our printers have a light fastness rating up to 200 years. Not only giclees are going to last longer then we live their visual quality is also undeniably greater which makes it hard sometimes to distinct giclees the originals. Prints must not be exposed to direct sunlight just as any original artwork.