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c What is a Giclee?
Giclee
(zhee-klay) - The French word "giclée" is a feminine noun that means
a spray or a spurt of liquid.
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| Different types of prints are produced with screens or plates that deteriorate with every image diminishing the quality in succession. | Giclee’s are higher resolution, produced with accuracy directly from a digital file with more consistent quality, eliminating degenerative steps in the process. |
| Prints are produced on a 4 color press limiting the range of color and accuracy. | Giclee’s are produced with 6-8 color spray heads producing the widest color range available and most accurate reproductions. |
| Prints are produced with tiny dots of various sizes to fool the eye into seeing different shades, hues and colors. | Giclee’s are produced in a similar fashion as airbrushing. Millions of droplets of ink per second are sprayed in a fine stream and actually mixed like paint onto the media producing more continuous tones and truer shades, hues and colors. |
| Prints are produced with non archival, self deteriorating materials that not only tend to blue or yellow over a period of time but show a noticeable fade when compared to a new print in less than 6 weeks. | Giclee’s are printed with all archival materials that are tested and proven to last up to 100 years with out any noticeable change. Giclee’s last longer than many forms of original art including some watercolors. |
| Prints are mass produced. | Giclee’s are made one at a time. |
