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About Our Prints:
It seems that there are many people running around eBay and
other forums badmouthing "Giclee" prints. People who do
this lack knowledge on the subject.
Yes, there are those people who will create some sort of "art"
on their computer and print it on the inkjet printer they got
for free when they purchased their computer and then list it as
a "Giclee" print to scam people. Technically, these prints are
"Giclee" because the ink is squirted or sprayed on to the paper.
But that does not make them a high quality print or archival in
quality.
Our Archival Quality Giclee Prints
Our prints are printed on 100% acid free archival
papers. They are printed using archival quality heavily
pigmented inks - not the cheap, off the rack, inks that you buy
for $12.
Our printer is a professional art printer. It
uses a 8 ink palette for the ultimate in accurate color
reproduction from the original watercolor painting. It has 8
print heads, each with 180 pins, and sprays 3.5 picoliter drops
of pigmented ink so that there is NO visible pixilation in the
prints, even under magnified conditions.
According to Wilhelm-research.com, an independent research firm
that
conducts research on the stability and preservation of
traditional and digital color photographs and motion pictures,
the combination of pigmented inks and papers we use for our
Limited Edition and Archival Quality Prints - our print
permanence ratings (the years before noticeable fading and/or
changes in color balance occur) are as follows:
Prints displayed with acid free matting, framed and under glass:
118 years
Prints displayed with acid free matting, framed with UV filter
glass: > 200 years
Prints displayed not framed in a bare bulb environment: 68 years
Prints stored in an acid free album/dark storage at 73°F
& 50% relative humidity: >200 years
What do galleries think about "Giclee" Prints?
The vast majority of modern prints sold in galleries today are
Giclee; both on paper and on canvas.
Many of today's most collectible prints are made using this same
technology we have in-house. This includes prints by Thomas
Kinkade made by his printer of choice - LumiGraph Art; many of
the prints (both paper and canvas) of Robert Bateman, and of Bev
Doolittle are also reproduced in this manner.
It is our pleasure to produce beautiful
high quality archival prints for you and your family to enjoy
for generations to come.
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