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| Giclée (pronounced "gee-clay")
is a French word meaning "a spraying of ink". Giclée prints reflect
the long-standing tradition in Europe of rendering an image one at a time.
With the advent of giclée, the art of reproducing fine art has become
even more precise. Giclées have the highest apparent resolution
available today -- as high as 1,800 dpi. This preciseness of the printing
along with the modern color range available captures the subtleties of
an original image no matter what the original medium was, be it water color,
oil, acrylic or air brush.
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, giclée print-machine quality creates continuous tone quality. Giclée prints produce incredible detail in the texture and highlights, mid-tones and shadows. They 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. |
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