WHAT IS A GICLÉE

With the advent of the Giclée, the art of fine art printing has become even more precise.  Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs.  The word Giclée is a French word meaning 'spray of ink', which is what an inkjet printer does.  An Iris ink jet print on watercolor paper or canvas is known as a Giclée.  A fine screen of ink - more than four million droplets per second is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas.  The effect is similar to an air brush technique but much finer.  Exact calculations of hue, value and density direct the ink of four nozzles.  This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (with over 3 million colors possible) of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink.  Because there is no visible dot screen pattern, the resulting image has all of the subtle tonalities of the original art.  This produces exceptional museum quality prints.

Each print is offered is on cotton duck canvas, protected by applying UV light retardant and light stabilizer post-coatings.  It is then mounted on stretcher bars for easy framing.

Among the many museums with Iris Giclée prints in their collections are: The British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum New York, Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.