"Giclée Fine Art" Large Format Printing
We are now very proud of being able to offer an extremely high quality in house printing service which reproduces "Giclee Fine Art Prints" at very competative prices.
The term "Giclee" refers to an extremely high quality printing technology. Following the completion of your post production work, your image(s) are printed using archival inks onto a acid free media material, including photographic fine art and canvas's.
The "Giclee" printing process provides a much better colour accuracy than any other means of reproduction. These advanced printers are more than capable of using the very latest in papers and canvas's without any major problems, and producing incredibly detailed prints for both fine art and photographic clients. The machine which is capable of producing this service is the new "Epson Pro 4800" series and uses the very latest "Ultra Chrome K3 Ink Technology".
This service blends itself very nicely to the clients who do not have the need to reproduce hundreds of prints in one run, but wants to produce the finished images as and when required or for that limited edition run.
Another bonus point of "Giclee" printing is that prints can be outputted to almost any size, giving the artist the ability to customise prints as required.
It is an industry known fact that "Giclee" prints rivals the traditional silver-halide and gelatine printing process, and is commonly used throughout the world in museums, art galleries and photographic galleries.
The maximum capacity of our machine is currently up to A1. Prints above these sizes are available upon request with the assistance of Epson UK.
The most commonly used media at present is Premium Gloss, soon to be followed by Canvas cloths, however Matt, Luster and many more medias are available.
The prints reproduced from these machines are guaranteed by the manufacturers for a minimum of 75 years, this includes both colour and black & white.
To avoid any mistakes or confusion when ordering, we have available upon request, a set of instructions on how to prepare and present your images for immediate printing. Also requested with your order is a contact sheet.
The "Fine Art Trade Guild have recently announced the following definition and standards for "Giglee (zhee-clay) printing.
"A giclee print is a piece of printed artwork or photograph produced by using a high quality digital inkjet printing system.
The inks used are especially formulated and compatible with the extreme fineness of the printer head that directs minute droplets of ink at a resolution of 1440 or 2880 dots per (linear) inch or more.
The paper or canvas used is especially prepared to accept this type of printing mechanism and ink set. The printing media must be manufactured to fine art standards and acid free to ensure longevity.
The visual quality of giclee prints is extremely high. Continuous tones are printed without apparent dots, lines or barring. Colour saturation and definition can be stunning.