Affordable Prints, Posters and Large Size Photographs From Your Digital Artwork
Giclee art prints can be produced on a variety of fine art media or substrate including smooth or textured watercolor paper, canvas, photo paper or rag content poster stock. Archival inks - tested to endure for up to 100 years without loss of brilliance or quality - are used for the finest giclee art and photo prints.
After printing, each reproduction giclee print is hand-trimmed and prepared for framing. Canvas giclee prints can be mounted on traditional wood stretchers or matted and framed. Photographic prints and watercolor giclee prints are usually framed under glass.
Giclee Print Quality Papers
Giclee Art Prints vs Offset Printing
The differences between giclee art prints and offset printing
Giclee prints cost more to produce than offset prints on a per print basis. Most offset print runs require a minimum order of 500 pieces. Giclee print orders are usually produced in small quantities - a single print is not uncommon. Both processes begin with a digital image created either from an original file or from a high quality scan of 2-dimensional artwork.Giclee prints must almost always be hand trimmed, as opposed to offset press prints manufactured and trimmed in lin bulk on high speed presses with automatic cutters to trim away excess paper edges.
A major advantage of making prints using the giclee method is that you can order very small quantities - one or a few prints rather than 100 or more. So, the per print cost is higher for giclee but the overall cost for your print run is less than the cost for offset printing. Also, the look and feel of a giclee art print is closer to that of the original media - a photograph can be printed on photographic paper; a watercolor print can be printed on rag-content artist-quality watercolor paper.
You can print giclee art prints on quality stretchable canvas - and, you can apply paint over any areas on the canvas print to further enhance the artwork or to create a mixed-media piece of art from your giclee print.
Giclee Art Print Process
Digital images become works of art on artist papers and canvas
- What is a Giclee?
- A definitive description of the giclee print process.
- Giclée - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Giclée From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giclee Poster Prints
Art for everyone - limited editions
Georgia O'Keeffe (Pink Gladiolas) Art Poster Print - 16" X 43"
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Kobe Bryant Los Angeles Lakers 11 X 14 Giclee
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Low Cost Giclee Print Services
Large Format Art Prints From Your Digital Image
If you have a good digital image and need a quality large print or poster, you can buy affordable prints from most large format print vendors. Giclee printers can make a digital print larger or smaller than your original digital image if the image quality is good enough - generally better than 150 dpi when it goes to the printer.
- Zazzle Prints
- Print your photograph, digital art or custom illustration in poster sizes.
- Image Factory Graphics
- Image Factory Graphics prints, posters, artwork giclee and more.
Digital Imaging Resources
Giclee prints are made from scanned artwork or digital images
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Artist Print Giclee Resources
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- Artist Prints from Your Photos
- Print your art jumbo size on high quality canvas, photo paper or heavy poster stock.
- Giclee Printing - Do it Yourself or Outsource?
- Giclee printing costs vary wildly from outfit to outfit.
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- lasertek lasertek Aug 3, 2009 @ 8:43 am
- Very interesting lens. Great to know more about Giclee Prints. I have a lens on printing consumables and compatible toner. Hope you can drop by sometime.
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- annetteghallowell annetteghallowell Jun 7, 2009 @ 7:20 pm
- I have some photos I have wanted to have made into a giclee print. Thanks for the resources and all the info related to them!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Jun 1, 2009 @ 8:10 am
- I have often noticed Giclee prints on AllPosters and wondered what they were - now I know! Thank you.
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- BevsPaper BevsPaper Oct 13, 2008 @ 8:09 am
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How to Stretch a Canvas
Wide Format Printers
Canon Pixma Pro9000 Professional Large Format Inkjet Printer (9995A001)
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Epson R1900 Large Format Photo Printer
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HP Deskjet 9800 Wide Format Color Printer (C8165A#A2L)
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Giclee Canvas Art Prints
"BIG RED" -Canvas Wall Art Fireman Rescue Heroes Series By Serena Bowman 11 In. X 14 In. Giclee
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