Digital Archival Pigment Prints (Giclée)

Giclée combines the beauty and brilliance of this printing technology with the use of pigments and the variety in paper types

With the advent of digital photography and the slow demise of mechanical lithography, digital inkjet high-end printing is expanding exponentially. Giclée means spraying or squirting in French.

Characteristics of a true digital archival print:
  • The use of archival pigmented inks
  • The use of archival fine art papers (i.e. canvas, watercolor)
  • An inkjet printer with professional grade nozzles
  • Individual color profiling for each paper
  • Giclée combines the beauty and brilliance of this printing technology with the use of pigments and the variety in paper types from canvas to watercolor or satin papers. While photographic prints are somewhat dull and limited in paper choices, a giclée print on canvas, watercolor or other substrates will make photos and paintings jump out with deep blacks, saturation and gradations hard to achieve with other media.

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