Are there significant quality differences between a giclee, a serigraph and a lithograph?
In terms of resolution, a giclee print has the highest resolution and color range. Giclee printmaking offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of color available in any reproductions technique. Gicle printmaking provides a luminosity and brilliance that represents the artist’s original work better than any reproduction technique available today. A serigraph is created when paint is ‘pushed’ through a silkscreen onto paper or canvas. A different screen is used for each color in the print, and this results in a print with great color density and many qualities of the original piece in terms of color saturation. This process also adds some texture to the final product. A lithograph is the least manually intensive reproduction technique, and in turn, is not as expensive as a serigraph or giclee. Although images can have a high resolution, and excellent appearance, they will not have the same degree of resolution or color density as a serigraph or giclee.
