What is Gallery Wrapping & the Giclee Printing Process?
Gallery Wrapping Gallery wrapped items are giclee’s on canvas that have been strecthed and wrapped on 1″ 1/2 wood bars ready to be hung in your home.(See above example in product image) Giclees With the advent of the Giclee, the skill of fine art printing has become even more precise than in the past. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is similar to a serigraph. In the Giclee process, a fine stream of ink, more than four million droplets per second is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. The result is similar to an airbrush technique but much finer. Each piece of paper or canvas is carefully hand mounted onto a drum that rotates during printing. Exact calculations of hue, value, and density direct the ink of four nozzles. This method creates a combination of 512 chromatic changes “that is over 3 million possible colors of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink.” The artists color approval and inp
