Giclée is a limited edition fine art print, produced with continuous tone ink jet technology on a variety of substrates, most commonly watercolor paper and canvas. Giclées are an exciting new medium for both artists and photographers. Reasons for the excitement vary, but the theme remains the same: quality. Whether reproducing an original, enhancing a photo or painting, or creating original digital art, giclées have much to offer. Sales statistics for giclée prints have shown a 60% increase from 1996 to 1997 and the amount spent by collectors in 1997 was $160 million.

Giclée prints have the look and feel of an original piece of art: Producing a giclée print is a slow, meticulous process which requires the skills of a master printer to create museum quality reproductions. The technology calls for special equipment and techniques to get the best color accuracy, sharpness, continuous color tone and artistic interpretation available in art prints today. Because giclée technology allows the image to be stored on disk, the artist has the choice of printing an edition on an "as needed" basis or all at one time.

Giclée prints offer artists photographers a new way to market their images: Giclées are the wave of the future.They are affordable, particularly compared to lithographs or serigraphs, and giclées can produce more vibrant color on a wider variety of substrates. Printed on watercolor paper, a photographic image takes on a more painterly quality with softer edges and muted tones. Certain photographs reproduced as giclées are mistaken for artwork and many times a giclée reproduction cannot be distinguished from the original.

Giclée prints are widely accepted at museums and galleries: Dozens of museums in the U.S. and abroad have either mounted exhibitions of Giclées or purchased them for their permanent collections.These include the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the Guggenheim (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Philadelphia Museum, the National Gallery for Women in the Arts (DC) and the CaliforniaMuseum of Photography, among others. The Smithsonian Institution will also be reproducing many of its vintage photographs as giclées in a new agreement with the Graphic Trust.

Many distinguished artists and photographers are having Giclées printed, including Andrew Wyeth, Jamie Wyeth, David Hockney, Chuck Close, Stephen Johnson, Joyce Tennyson and Richard Avedon, to mention a few.We are a fine art digital studio utilizing state of the art equipment to reproduce your fine art.

Why is Giclee´ printing the way of the future? The apparent resolution of the digital print is 1,800 dots per inch, which is higher than a traditional lithographic print and has a wider range of color than serigraphy. Giclee´ prints render deep saturated colors and have a beautiful painterly quality that retains minute detail, subtle tints and blends.