What is Giclée printing?
“Giclée” means fine art ink jet print. The term was coined to differentiate fine art prints from commercial proofs made from similar equipment. Giclée differs from other traditional printing methods. Posters are usually produced using offset lithography, which uses 4 colors of differing size dots to produce the colors (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). Newspapers are produced the same way. Giclée prints have the different colors of ink mix on the surface of the paper, so the colors are bright and uniform, even when examined close up. Our Giclée printers use 8 colors of ink (cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta, yellow, black, light black, and light light black), so we are able to produce a wider spectrum of color than a traditional print can. For more information on our inks and papers, click HERE. Traditional prints take a longer time to set up, and generally require a large amount of prints to be made at one time to make up for the cost. One of the benefits of Giclée prints is t
