If there is no 100% match, why do you use highly priced equipment to produce giclées instead of a much cheaper flat-bed scanner or a regular camera?
There is an old wisdom: Garbage in, garbage out. In the context of fine art reproduction this means that one will not get an excellent result with a mediocre scanning device. Excellence here means getting extremely close to the original. It means reproducing the “soul” of the original. And for this purpose it is extremely essential to use state-of-the-art equipment like we do with the Cruse-Fine-Art-Synchron-Table with 1.1 Giga-Pixels in 24-bit mode. Before we do a scan at MaaleaPress, we analyze the original and use the result in the way we do the scan. For example we find out which direction the light takes in the original and then we follow that light with the scanner. On a giclée print from an original with texture either from the substrate (canvas, paper) or thick paint, we get nice shadows in the print. That effect makes it nearly impossible for the eye to tell the difference between the original and the giclée. This effect cannot be done with any other scanning technology. The C
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