Do Giclee printers use ordinary printer inks?
No. They use special light-fast inks, which, if kept out of the sun, will remain true for up to 65 years. The way the image is scanned is different also. The original is scanned directly on a drum scanner. Some images can be as large as 500 x 700 mm. Gicle versus Lithograph All original lithograph prints are numbered, and for a very specific purpose. The equipment used to produce a lithograph: the stencil, the lino cut, the plate, etc., ages during the printing process, and the later prints have differences to the earlier prints. A 1/100, therefore, would be worth more than a 10/100, and definitely more than a 100/100 of the same print by the same artist. But every Gicle in an edition has the potential to be exactly the same as all the others. Additionally, in methods of print making other than Gicles, the plates used for reproducing the limited edition print were often destroyed and it was highly expensive and very difficult to make any more reproductions of the print. This is in dire
