Southend-On-Sea, British Rail, c.1960
By Kenneth Steel
Giclee Print
What is a giclee?
Giclee is a French word meaning "a spraying of ink.” With the advent of giclee, the art of reproducing fine art has become even more precise. Giclee has the highest apparent resolution available today -- as high as 1,800 dots per inch. In addition, since no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs and a color range that exceeds that of serigraphy. Displaying a full color spectrum, giclee prints capture every nuance of an original and have gained wide acceptance from artists and galleries throughout the world.
The patented printing technology utilizes microscopically fine droplets of ink to form the image. A print can consist of nearly 20 billion ink droplets. The microscopic droplets of ink vary in sizes (approximately the size of a red blood cell) and density. This unique patented feature produces a near continuous tone image, smoother gradation between tones, and a more finely differentiated color palette.
Giclee printmaking offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of color available in any reproductions technique.
Giclee printmaking provides a luminosity and brilliance that represents the artist's original work better than any reproduction technique available today
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