Contained in the permanent collections of the world’s most prestigious and important museums, giclèe fine art prints are recognized as a new benchmark in print-making technology. The giclèe process provides artists and buyers exceptional, high quality prints that define the niche between large quantity offset lithography runs and one of a kind original artwork.
About 20 years ago digital inkjet printing was introduced as a fast way to reproduce art on demand. Since then extremely high resolution printers, state of the art color management practices, pigmented inks and fine art media have evolved to a higher level of printmaking excellence. Image Craft professionals are artisans in the craft of giclèe fine art printing and have a department dedicated to this very specialized field.
We start with the all important image capture of your original artwork. Our image capture process produces astoundingly accurate high resolution files. These files are archived at Image Craft and can be pulled anytime to produce new prints as you need them with just a simple phone call.
Image Craft technicians examine the digitized image and compare it to your original art for color accuracy and acuity. Preliminary adjustments are made to fine-tune the color data and a giclèe proof is printed on the paper or canvas you choose for the final output. We use the finest quality 100% rag, Hannemuhle, William Turner watercolor paper and Sihl Artist Canvas.
An initial meeting is set up for you to review a proof. Your input will be noted and serves as the basis for additional corrections. A second proof is then produced and another review meeting scheduled. When a final proof is approved, we ask you to sign it as a “master proof”, which is filed and will serve as a definitive reference for all giclèe reproductions of that piece.
Each giclèe print is individually crafted to match the “master proof”, inspected for color, print and overall quality. Giclèe prints must meet our high standards and rejects are immediately destroyed to safeguard the integrity of your legal rights.
All Image Craft giclèe prints are issued a Certificate of Authenticity to provide proof of origin and quality, along with media and ink information. Edition prints are sequentially numbered.
Image Craft also offers these post-printing services:
Custom Framing with Traditional Archival Materials
Hand-Torn Deckled Edges for Giclèe Prints on Paper
UV and Abrasion-Resistant Liquid Lamination for Giclèe Prints on Canvas
Gallery Wrap/Stretcher Frames for Giclèe Prints on Canvas
Packaging, shipping and fulfillment
