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Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word "giclée" is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. The word may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to squirt".

The term "giclee print" denotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction.

Giclee prints are created typically using professional 8-Color to 12-Color ink-jet printers. Among the manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson, MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. These modern technology printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine art and photographic markets. Giclee prints are sometimes mistakenly referred to as Iris prints, which are 4-Color ink-jet prints from a printer pioneered in the late 1970s by Iris Graphics. The power of modern computers is harnessed to drive and control each combination, of colour, shade, hue, value and density of the ink via four or eight nozzles.

This can produce a combination of up to 1024 basic chromatic changes, which makes possible of over four million color combinations of highly saturated, non-toxic, water based ink. Since no half-tone screens are used in Giclee printing, the prints have a higher resolution than lithographs. The intense saturation of the Giclee printing system renders a dynamic color range is greater than serigraphy.

The apparent resolution of the digital print is 1800 dots per square inch, which is higher than a traditional lithographic print and has a wider color gamut than serigraphy. Giclee prints render deep, saturated colors and have a beautiful painterly quality that retains minute detail, subtle tints and blends.

Giclee prints are advantageous to artists who do not find it feasible to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art as needed, or on-demand. Once an image is digitally archived, additional reproductions can be made with minimal effort and reasonable cost. The prohibitive up-front cost of mass production for an edition is eliminated. Archived files will not deteriorate in quality as negatives and film inherently does. Another tremendous advantage of giclee printing is that digital images can be reproduced to almost any size and onto various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific client.

The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries.

Ten years ago Giclees had a hard time being accepted by the general art buying public as "legitimate" art. Today, Giclee Prints have gained wide acceptance and "legitimacy", and are now shown in museums and galleries throughout the world.

Numerous examples of giclee prints can be found in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Chelsea Galleries. Recent auctions of giclee prints have fetched $10,800 for Annie Leibovitz, $9,600 for Chuck Close, and $22,800 for Wolfgang Tillmans (April 23/24 2004, Photographs, New York, Phillips de Pury & Company.)

The Giclée printing process is environmentally safe since the inks are water-based and the paper is archival and acid-free. Thus, a Giclée must be treated as fine art and placed away from direct sunlight, even though we use extra long-life Archival UV-Safe Pigmented Inks.

Come join the art adventure at Art Ideas for You and learn how you can have a business with limited edition quality canvas giclee paintings.

We are a business in the art industry combined with direct sales for an income opportunity for entrepreneurs and individuals seeking to work from their homes.

For more information about the Art Adventure, please visit us at Art Ideas for You.

Don’t Throw Away the Idea of Printing Photographs on your Own Just Yet

It doesn’t matter whether you’re printing photographs at home or at a professional developer’s, you still have a few printing options which to choose from. These options are mainly about which type of paper to use, and which size you want your prints to be. As to the option of papers you have various options open to you, with the two most common ones being matte paper or glossy paper.

As you can guess from their names, printing photographs on a glossy paper gives you photographs with a shiny look to them, while matte paper does exactly the opposite.

If you’re giving your shots in to be printed for you, you won’t have much of a choice in anything else other than the size of the printed photograph.

If you’re printing photographs at home however, you always have the option of doing a little bit of editing to your photograph first to maybe enhance it a little bit.

This isn’t necessary but sometimes a little tweaking doesn’t hurt, and if they are family shots then you’ll want them to come out the best possible way.

Another great option you have with printing photographs at home is being able to make cards if you want to. You can have the right card for any occasion and all with only the minimum of fuss. The only thing that you’ll need to have on hand is card paper and this can be easily obtained at any photo printing shop, or arts and crafts store.

You can even get the matching envelope with ready-creased cards if you want further convenience.

Yes, you can do all of that at a photo printer’s but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you can cut and chop and make a collage of your favorite pictures, or even that you’ll get exactly what you want when you want. The service you get at these places is good, and in most places you can now just plug in your memory card to one of the machines and start printing photographs at the touch of a button, but your choices will be necessarily limited when you’re doing this.

This option is a very good one when you’re in a hurry and the generic prints are what you want, but part of the fun of having a digital camera is that printing photographs for yourself becomes so easy, not to mention being able to tweak them a little first.

After all, what’s the use of having a digital camera if you’re going to do the same thing with those pictures that you do with a normal film camera.

True, you might not have the time or the inclination to tweak every single shot you’ve taken, but there’s no denying the fact that there are some photographs are worth taking the time over, and which would look simply stunning if you could just adjust a few things here and there.

So don’t throw away the idea of printing photographs on your own just yet. There could be some fun implications for you to look into, and at the very least it always make a great gift idea for the photography buff in your life.

About the Author

Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and has been Researching and Reporting on Digital Photography for years. For more information on Printing Photographs, visit his site at PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS

What is it called when you place semi-transparent objects on photographic paper and expose the paper?

It is an art form. I remember doing this in college (many years ago) but can't remember what it is called.

That's called a 'photogram'.

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