Giclées are a fine art reproduction usually produced in very limited editions. The word "Giclée" comes from the French words gicleur "nozzel" and gicler "to spray or spurt" was coined in California by early developers of the process as a recognizable product.

A Giclée begins with the original art or transparency being digitally photographed or scanned to create a digital file. Special software programs are used in conjunction with calibrated equipment to manipulate color and contrast to achieve the superior color and detail of a Giclée.

This latest method of making higher quality prints is gaining very high standard popularity.
 
Why is a gicleé more modern and higher quality than a lithograph?

 
A gicleé (zhee-CLAY - fancy French term for “spray of ink”) is an individually produced, high-resolution reproduction done on a special large format printer. Gicleés are produced from digital scans of existing artwork.

Gicleés can be printed on any number of media, from canvas to watercolor paper to transparent acetates. Gclee's are superior to traditional lithography in several ways. The colors are brighter, last longer, and are so high-resolution that they are virtually continuous tone, rather than tiny dots. The range, or "gamut" of color for gicleés is far beyond that of lithography, and details are crisper.

Lithography uses tiny dots of four colors--cyan, magenta, yellow and black--to fool the eye into seeing various hues and shades. Colors are "created" by printing different size dots of these four colors.

Gicleés use inkjet technology, but far more sophisticated than your desktop printer. The process employs six colors--light cyan, cyan, light magenta, magenta, yellow and black--of lightfast, pigmented inks and finer, more numerous, and replaceable print heads resulting in a wider color gamut, and the ability to use various media to print on. The ink is sprayed onto the page, actually mixing the color on the page to create true shades and hues.

They are priced midway between original art and regular limited edition lithographs. Limited edition litho prints are usually produced in editions of 500-1000 or more, all at once; but gicleés rarely exceed 50-100 reproductions, one at a time.

Gicleés are produced on high quality artist canvas using the latest technology including six-color pigment-based UV inks rated to 200 years to resist fading under museum quality lighting, per rating service conducted by the Wilhelm Society. An additional UV and water-resistant coating is added for further protection.

Certificates of Authenticity are provided with purchase of print or as requested by interested parties.