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Giclee is a French
word meaning “spraying of ink”. A giclee (zhee-CLAY)
is an individually produced, high-resolution, high-fidelity reproduction
done on a special large format printer. Giclees are produced
from digital scans of existing artwork. Also, since many artists
now produce only digital art, there is not an "original"
that can be hung on a wall. Giclees solve that problem, while
creating a whole new vibrant medium for art.
Giclees were originally developed
as a proofing system for lithograph printing presses, but it
became apparent that the presses were having a hard time matching
the quality and color of the giclee proofs. They evolved into
the new darlings of the art world. They are coveted by collectors,
and desired by galleries because they don't have to be produced
in huge quantities with a large layout of capital and storage.
Giclees can be printed on
any number of media, from canvas to watercolor paper to transparent
acetates. Giclees are superior to traditional lithography in
several ways. The colors are brighter, last longer, and are so
high-resolution that they are virtually continuous tone, rather
than tiny dots. The range, or "gamut" of color for
giclees is far beyond that of lithography.
Lithography uses tiny dots
of four colors--cyan, magenta, yellow and black--to fool the
eye into seeing various hues and shades. Colors are "created"
by printing different size dots of these four colors.
In addition, Giclees are
produced directly from a digital file, saving generations of
detail-robbing negatives and printing plates, as with traditional
printing.
Giclees use inkjet technology,
but far more sophisticated than your desktop printer. The process
employs six colors--light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta,
yellow and black--of lightfast inks and finer, more numerous,
and replaceable printheads resulting in a wider color gamut,
and the ability to use various media to print on. The ink is
sprayed onto the page, actually mixing the inks on the page to
create true colors. They are priced midway between original art
and regular limited edition lithographs. Limited edition lithograph
prints are usually produced in editions of 500-1000 or more,
but giclees rarely exceed 50-100 reproductions.
The Wildflowers production facility utilizes a state of the art digital
printer that, combined with our wide array of archival media
and highly pigmented, uv-resistant inks, can produce a combination
of 512 chromatic changes, with over 3 million possible colors.
The resulting giclee reproduction
has an endless array of richly saturated color, no noticeable
dot pattern, and every subtle nuance of the original artwork.
A Wildflowers fine art giclee reproduction carries a light-fastness
rating up to 200 years under museum archival conditions. This
means that in many cases a Wildflowers giclee reproduction is actually more
permanent than the original fine art work, making the giclee
much sought-after by fine art collectors!
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Located in Beautiful Banner
Elk, NC and convenient to upper east Tennessee and southwest
Virginia, Wildflowers Fine Art Publishers use state-of-the-art,
digital photo scanning combined with wide format printing to
produce the finest quality Giclee reproductions available on
the market today. Our services include: Digital Photography,
digital scanning, full color calibration, wide format printing,
conservation framing and matting, shrink-wrapping, website development
for artists and much, much more! You’ll find that our pricing
is very competitive within this exciting fine art publishing
industry niche and you simply will not beat the caliber of personalized
service and expertise offered by our team of fine artist technicians.
Call us today to schedule your free consultaion. Your satisfaction
is always guaranteed!
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