When you first see your print, you'll be delighted at the richness, the color, and the quality. Each painting, except digital artwork, is professionally photographed and meticulously examined at extremely high resolution for any imperfections. The piece is then carefully prepared specifically for the Giclée printing process.

The Giclée Technique

The Giclée technique uses an Iris digital ink jet printer which has been specifically designed for producing museum quality, limited edition prints. The printer uses continuous tone technology. Incredibly small pixels of color reproduce an amazingly smooth and consistent image, faithfully recreating the artists' original artwork. Acid free, archival-quality water color paper is attached to a drum, and as the drum rotates at a very high speed, tiny individual dots of color are sprayed on to the surface at a rate of 4-5 million dots per second. A full size print can take up to an hour to reproduce.

Once completed, a 18" x 26" image is comprised of almost 15 billion dots of ink. The Giclée printing process uses specially formulated archival inks. The results are museum quality prints that will last many years with the same amount of care as you would give traditional lithographs.

Why do we produce Iris Giclée prints instead of lithographs?

Quality:

The Iris Giclée process produces an apparent 1,800 dots per inch, higher than traditional lithography. They produce deep saturated colors and have a beautiful painterly quality that retains minute detail, subtle tints, and blends.

Availability:

It is cost prohibitive to produce lithographs for all of the prints we can make available using the Giclée "on demand" printing process. This superb recreation technique allows us to offer to you a wide range of available prints that could not be made available any other way. This also helps the artists be more flexible, and encourages creativity and experimentation.