Fine art paper mills such as Hahnemuhle, who have been producing mould made artist papers for over 435 years, have an extensive range of fine art papers used in giclee printing. The quality of the paper or canvas used in a giclee print is very important. The Fine Art Trade Guild has set minimum standards for a giclee print - it must score 6 or more on the Blue Wool Scale for light fastness, with an acidity level of between pH7 and pH9, to minimise discolouring. To qualify for the title of a "fine art giclée print" it should be made on archival quality coated paper, and printed with pigment based archival inks, which are UV stable.
The term "giclee" is derived from the French for "spray" and was first coined by Jack Duganne, a printmaker, to represent an inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. Giclée Printing refers to a printmaking method that involves using a digitised image outputted from a computer to a large format inkjet printer. Traditionally, artists have used offset lithography and screen-printing to reproduce runs of prints, both these photomechanical methods of reproduction use plates or screens. Giclee images reproduced from your original paintings, watercolours or drawings are recorded as a digital file and can be produced whenever required.Īn archived copy of your image file can be kept for you to call off single or multiple copies at any time, this enables you to avoid the high cost and risk of producing a complete print edition all at once. One advantage that digital printing offers to the artist and publisher is that the edition can be printed on demand as print orders are received. Giclee fine art prints made from your original artwork, as an open or limited edition print, is another way to market your work. Suddenly you have opened up endless possibilities for increasing the revenue from your work. Now imagine if you could reproduce some of your more important pieces on demand and then sell them as very high quality art prints, often on the same media the original was produced on.
As any artist who sells their own original work knows, once your pride and joy is gone, that's it.
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