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.