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All About Giclée Prints
Barbara Smits’ giclée prints are printed on an 8-color Epson R1800 printer using Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss® archival pigment ink and Epson archival paper. This ink and paper combination is shown by Epson to produce prints that are fade-resistant up to 200 years when framed under glass and kept out of direct sunlight.
A giclée print is a high quality inkjet print that allows for a greater complexity of color and tone. The term is often applied to inkjet reproductions of artworks that were originally produced in another medium.
Giclée (pronounced “zhee-clay”, from the French, is a newly coined word for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word “giclée” is derived from the French language word “le gicleur” meaning “nozzle”, or more specifically “gicler” meaning “to squirt, spurt, or spray”. It represents any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. 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 inkjet printers that use them. A wide variety of substrates are available including various textures and finishes such as matte photo paper, watercolor paper, cotton canvas, or artist textured vinyl.
As an artist, I believe that every giclée print that I create is an original artwork that can be produced at a reasonable cost and provide the art lover with a high quality original that will last for many years in their own home setting.
The above information on Giclée prints is taken from Wikipedia.
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