What is a Giclée?

The art of fine art printing has become even more precise with the advent of the revolutionary Giclée (ghee-clay) printing process. The word Giclée is French for "to spray on" or "to spray ink". In the Giclée process, a fine stream of ink (more than four million droplets per second) is sprayed onto canvas. Each piece of canvas is carefully hand mounted onto a drum which rotates during printing. Exact calculation of hue, value and density direct the ink from four nozzles. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes (with over three million colors possible) of highly saturated, non-toxic water-based ink. Since no screens are used in Giclée printing, the prints have a higher resolution than lithographs and the dynamic color range is greater than that of acrylagraphs or serigraphs.

After the printing process, a Giclée specialist examines the painting with special materials to make any necessary corrections, and apply a final, thin, transparent coating, with UV protection for maximum permanence.

All our Giclée's are inspected, signed and numbered by Ms. Cortez.