Photo Art Giclee On Canvas

The Word Giclée:

Gicleé, commonly pronounced "zhee-clay" is a generic term for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The term, from the French verb gicler meaning "to squirt, to spray", originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print. The word “giclée” was created by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris print" proofs from the type of fine art prints artists were producing.

The Cicleé Process:

Images are generated from high resolution digital photographs or scans and then printed with archival quality inks onto various media including canvas, fine art vellum paper, water color papers, and glossy photo paper. The gicle’e printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction. Beside continued development of Iris prints, in the past few years, the word “giclée”, as a fine art term, has come to be associated with prints using fade resistant "archival" inks and the printers that use them. Many of these printers such as our Canon iPF Image Prograph printers use CMYK/RGB with the 12 color archival pigment inks for more vibrant colors and variations of each color allowing them to reach a larger color gamut. Artists prefer to use this type of "Giclée" printing process to make limited edition high end reproductions of their original artwork, photographs, graphics or computer generated art.

The True Advantage:

Although Giclée style prints are more expensive than the traditional four color offset lithography process originally used to make reproductions in large quantities the true advantage is quality, storage and control. The Gicleé allows for a much better high quality finished product on a limited quantity. The digital once produced is easily stored, will never deteriorate and can be quickly accessed and reproduced at almost any size and quantity at reasonable cost. The Gicleé printing process has the added advantage of allowing the artist to control every aspect of the image, its color and the substrate it is printed on Canvas, Heavy Weight Mat paper, Watercolor Paper, Vinyl and much more. Gicleé prints can be found in museums all over the world and can sell for tens of thousands of dollars.

The Cost:

Our pricing for producing your photos or art on Canvas as a Gicleé print are very competitive and can be found in Our Price List that can be downloaded from the “Ordering Your

Photos on Canvas” page.