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The word "Giclee" is pronounced "Gee-klay" with a soft "g" as you would pronounce a "z". It is a French word which means a spray or a spurt of liquid. In layman's terms, when you purchase a Giclee, you are purchasing a very high quality print of an original artwork which has been created using archival quality inks. These inks are sprayed onto the support medium from a specialised printer and give the print a continuous-flow image instead of an image comprised of thousands of dots of ink. The inks used contain pigments rather than dyes, which ensure a lifespan of the Giclee of at least twenty-five years. The printing process also provides better color accuracy than other printing methods. Giclee printers are able to utilise more colors than conventional printing methods which means that the prints exhibit far more depth, and appear much closer in texture and color, to the original. There is a high degree of accuracy and brilliance of color, where the color saturation and definition can be quite remarkable. They are able to be produced on a wider variety of supports like canvas, fine art paper and photo-base paper, giving artist and client the opportunity for customised prints to be created to suit specific needs. As an art investment, a Giclee allows he artist the choice to print fewer editions of their original artwork, which adds a far greater value to a lesser-produced image. Conventional print methods require a large number of prints to be produced, often numbering the hundreds and sometimes thousands, in order to make the operation cost effective, whereas once the original image has been digitally edited and saved to disk, a Giclee can be produced on demand. The original set-up cost is far lower which is a great relief to artists who no longer have to order, and pay for, large numbers of prints in advance. They are now able to print one at a time, when required, until their limited edition target is reached. You will find Giclee prints in the finest galleries of Europe and the States, as well as in museums worldwide, including the Guggenheim, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Limited Editions of no more than either fifty or one hundred copies will give you the best value, and a Certificate of Authentication of Limited Edition should accompany the Giclee that you purchase.
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