How does a Giclée print compare to a lithographic print?
Our giclée prints are far superior to the cheap mass produced lithographic prints you see in the high street and on many online poster shops: • We use use six colour lightfast, pigmented inks – light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow and black – to produce fantastic colour range and clarity and ensure long-term colour vibrancy • With numerous and finer print-heads we produce a wider colour gamut to ensure crisp high-resolution prints every time • The ink is sprayed onto the substrates, mixing the colour on the page to create true shades and hues and delivering a virtually continuous tone, rather than tiny dots (see below) • Lithography uses tiny dots of different sizes of four colours – cyan, magenta, yellow and black – fooling the eye into seeing various hues and shades • Our prints are printed direct from high resolution digital images themselves created from high-resolution digital photos or scans of the original artwork • Lithography uses negatives and printing plates, whi
