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Giclée printing on wide-format printers is certainly a wonderful innovation in the world of fine art. What makes it so wonderful, among many other things, is that it allows artists to print their works on demand. They do not need to print their work by batches and then maintain costs by keeping them in storage, as they would if they used offset printing. Moreover, with giclée printing, artists can customize their work by printing on different mediums and different sizes according to how their clients want it.However, if you are an artist who has just decided to work with giclée printing, you need to know that the quality of your fine art prints is highly dependent on the kind of paper or print medium you are going to use on your wide-format printer. There are many factors that come into play here, so you need to choose carefully the kind of paper or print medium you will be using when you come up with your giclée prints. Here are a few tips on how to buy the right paper or print medium for your giclée printing.1. Determine what kind of ink you will be using. It is a simple fact that not all printer inks will work with a particular kind of paper or print medium and not all printer inks work with a specific kind of wide-format printer. Before you stock on paper and other print media, you should know first if they will work well with the ink you use on your printer. The best way to go about this is to buy small samples first and then make a few test prints.2. Check if your RIP software can handle the medium. Another reason why you should determine if your ink works with a certain kind of print medium is that the same image will look different when printed on different mediums, especially when it comes to color. Your raster image processing software or RIP should be able to strike a balance in the appearance and color of your fine art print when it is rendered on different mediums so that you can create a sense of consistency across the board for your prints.3. See if the printer head likes the print medium. As stated above, not all print media work well with a specific kind of wide-format printer. You should check the manuals of your wide-format printer or ask for technical support before you use a particular type of medium on the printer. Not only will this affect the rendering of the giclée print but also the print medium can leave particulates on the printer head that can clog or damage it eventually.4. Determine if the print medium can be laminated. Laminating the giclée print or putting a lacquer coating on it is meant to protect it from fading or damage as well as enhance its appearance.When you buy paper for printing giclée fine art prints on a wide-format printer, you need to make sure that you are getting the right kind of paper for your ink and printer. This is meant to ensure that you are creating high-quality printouts that will last a long time as well as protect your printer from any long-term damage.

A lot of us like looking at fine art but could not afford to own one. If the artist is really skilled, you can expect his or her original work to be really expensive. Or perhaps it is not a matter of the price tag on the work of art in question but a matter of it being priceless.In such cases, those of us who cannot afford an original piece of fine art or cannot obtain it otherwise will have to settle for art prints. Of course, we all know that the quality of art prints will never be as good as an original – or will they? With today’s technology, it is now possible for us to get high-quality art prints that are almost as good as the original, and that is by buying giclée prints made using special wide-format printers.What Is Giclée?Giclée is a relatively new term that emerged in the world of fine art in the early 1990s. What it basically refers to is the creation of fine art prints rendered from a digital source file and using a special inkjet printer. The special inkjet printer is usually a wide-format printer or a large-format printer. The word “giclée” is said to have been taken from the terms “le gicleur,” which is French for “nozzle,” and “gicler,” which is also French for “to squirt.”What makes giclée prints so special? For one, giclée prints are guaranteed to last longer than ordinary art prints because they are made using fade-resistant printer inks, which are also called archival inks. For another, giclée prints are almost as good as the original because they have a high resolution, a high degree of accuracy in color rendering, and a faithful approximation of details, among other things. That is because the wide-format printers designed to work with giclée are often 8-color to 12-color inkjet printers.Advantages of Giclée PrintingGiclée printing gives a lot of advantages to artists and art lovers alike. Perhaps the most important advantage is that it makes both selling and owning art more cost-effective. For the artist, he or she no longer has to reproduce the artwork manually. For the art lover, he or she can indulge in buying art without having to spend a fortune on it.Making giclée prints also gives a certain amount of control for the artist. By having giclée prints made of his or her work, the artist can print on demand instead of printing the work by batches and then paying for storage and maintenance. The artist can also customize his work for a particular client, not just in terms of size but also in terms of medium used. Many wide-format printers used for giclée printing can work with silk, textured vinyl, cotton canvas, matte photo paper or watercolor paper. So, the artist can experiment with the production of his or her artwork, and the art lover can have the artwork that he or she wants just the way he or she wants it.In short, giclée prints of fine art using wide-format printers make it more affordable to produce and to own works of art. Moreover, the art lover can get artwork exactly how he or she wants it, and the artist can be more creative in creating his or her art.

Giclee pronounced ‘Zhee clay’ comes from the French word gicler, which means to spurt. It is an invented name by printmaker James Duganne in the 1990’s. Giclee is an art process by making fine art prints from an inkjet printer. Jack Duganne worked with Iris Proof Printers the first ink jet printers to produce fine art prints. The Iris printers are large format printers and were used for proofing and colour matching. They produced excellent colour accuracy and could print on arrange of mediums like canvas, varieties of papers, silk and linen and also had low ink costs. Once printed, the article was normal discarded and then mass printing would occur after checking the article produced by the Iris Printer was fit to do so. Fine art prints printed from these printers normally degrade and have non-longevity because the printers were made for proofing only and they also use dye inks. The company that manufactured the Iris printers tried to reinvent themselves and make printers that produced fine art prints that were durable but they failed has competition grew vast. The competition includes Colorspan, Epson, Canon, HP, Mimaki and Roland DGA.

Iris proofs as what artists called them for obvious reasons where not called giclee prints and some artists wanted to distinguish them from that. Giclee prints lasts for many years. Nash came up with another name called digigraph to distinguish them from industrial printing which was Iris printing. At present giclee now stands from prints printed by fade – resistant archival inks including solvent inks.

Ink jet printers use a CMYK process but have multiple cartridges for variations of each colour based on CcMmYK (cyan, light cyan, magenta, light magenta, yellow and key which is black). This increases resolution and colour gamut. The printers can use a variety of substrates and even produce fabulous prints on thick paper, card and board with beautiful fine art finishes. Epson printing technology has now increased the CcMmYK process by adding a light black and a light light black and also matte black for matte papers and fine art papers including canvas. This is to deplete bronzing and to create stunning black and white giclee prints.

For artist giclee printing is economical, affordable and they don’t need to produce larger runs of four colour offset prints. They can print on necessity and manipulate image files using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel, Ulead and ArcSoft Photo studio which can improve colour, size, resolution and tone. The disadvantages of giclee printing are that it can take a long time to print a print and sometimes can be expensive depending on what you’re printing and how big. For customers buying giclee art prints it can be beneficial with price depending if it’s a limited edition, original or the print has been mass printed. They can buy a print that matches their décor and of any size and on any substrate. They can even get the company their buying it from to change the colours of a print if they wish especially if it’s a bespoke giclee printing company. They can also get their own images or photos to canvas if they wish. The most important customer factor is it last a very long time up to 75 years and this depends on substrates used and model of the printer, epson printers are very good for this. They now use a new system where there are three blacks and these create stunning black and white prints.

If you are looking for inexpensive art you have many different options, although you might think you’re limited to simple photos, cheap mass-produced prints or other artwork reproductions that are widely available. There are many fine art prints on canvas from up-and-coming artists that are quite inexpensive, and yet they are still so original that you are not likely to find them in any of your friends’ or family members’ homes. You just have to know the right places to look. The rest is a matter of your taste, which is completely personal. 

If you have any interest in figurative art, you might be interested in prints from an artist known as Pino. Artist biographies list him as “trained in Italy at the Art institute of Bari, and later at Milan’s Academy of Brera…perfected his skills painting nudes and figure studies heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and Macchiaioli.” Pino first established himself as a successful artist in his native land of Italy, then immigrated to the United States, seeking more artistic freedom and opportunity. His technique and warm, exciting colors paired with a subtle but simple approach to his subject are why his original paintings, hand-embellished limited edition serigraphs and giclées are sought-after by collectors throughout the art world. From the sounds of it you’d think you needed to be a millionaire mogul to afford his artwork, but this is not the case. 

If you are looking for inexpensive art from renowned artists like Pino, the Internet is one of the best places to find it.  There are sites that offer fine art prints on canvas that look just as stunning as original paintings at prices that are affordable enough to purchase several new pieces to outfit your home.  In many cases these prints are even more affordable online than in other settings because they do not have to be displayed in a gallery or other retail location. 

While there are a lot of wealthy people who own art, you don’t have to be wealthy to own fine prints from artists like Pino that will look just stunning in your home. You just have to know where to look.

Nearly everybody loves fine art, and chances are you too would want to have a specimen displayed in your home. After all, who wouldn’t want a da Vinci, a Rembrandt, a Monet, a Renoir, a Goya, a Constable, a Van Gogh, a Cezanne, a Matisse, a Picasso, or a Dali to adorn their walls? High art has been there since the dawn of civilization, but since the Renaissance i.e. the fourteenth century onwards, there is a deluge of sculptures, murals, gouache, watercolor, and oil paintings to choose from. In the closing decades of the last century, digital art too has made its way into the ranks of fine art. Masterpieces don’t come cheap The problem lies with the finances. Possessing an original painted by the likes of those mentioned above could set you back by millions of dollars. Only a handful of art galleries, museums or billionaire private collectors can afford to have a painting by such luminaries in their collection. Does that mean the not so rich art lovers cannot have a painting at home to marvel at, or to lift their minds above the mundane? Of course they can! In such a situation, fine art reproduction can come to your rescue. Copies An obvious way to get a great painting for your home is to go for a copy. There are artists specializing in copying the work of masters. Such copies are hand-painted by on real canvas, using real oil paints. The artists also try their best to make the copies as near identical to the original as possible. While you can hardly expect the class of the original, you can have the satisfaction that it is a genuine oil painting, done on canvas with real oil paint instead of being a paper poster. The flipside is that: A copy is painted by a trained and skilled artist, using expensive equipment and oil paint, and taking a lot of time. As a result it might still be too expensive for your budget. The touch of masterful genius is bound to be absent. The great artists were, well, great artists after all. Paper prints Fine art has been reproduced in the print form since the 1900s, with the advancement of printing technology. Various techniques have been used, the best among them being offset lithography. These techniques can make “museum quality”, high fidelity prints of the original artwork. And both have been a boon for art lovers on a budget who would still want to possess a fine art specimen or two for their homes or workplaces. Offset litho Color offset lithography is a photomechanical process of commercial printing where tiny dots in four colors are printed in different sizes. The overall effect is to produce an illusion of rich colors and minute detail. Before that, the original artwork is scanned using large format drum scanners and a series of negatives and plates made. Original Prints If you are thinking about buying an “original print”, the artist who created the original has to create the copy too, or at least have total creative control over the printing process. The artist also certifies such prints by signing on the bottom right hand margin. Printing on canvas The latest craze in the fine art reproduction market is the print on canvas. The reasons are easy to see. The rich color tones and high color fidelity on the medium most suited to fine art can recreate the magic of the original like no other. And you should rightly be proud of possessing such a beautiful work of art.

Where can you get the best value on the internet on mounted canvas giclee reproductions of the fine art masterpieces, especially impressionists and landscape artists? Thanks for any good leads.

Promotional Video for Keith Goodson’s art show in Mizner Park, Boca Raton, Fl. 2010