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Thread #54481   Message #848883
Posted By: JohnInKansas
17-Dec-02 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
Subject: RE: BS: Your Favorite Visual Artist
On the subject of prints, I just ran into the following description for a "limited edition" release:

About Iris Giclée Limited Edition Prints

An Iris Giclée print is the highest quality print available today. Giclée, (pronounced "zhee-clay") is French for "to spray". In brief it is a process where the original image or a reproduction quality transparency is digitally scanned. Then in a collaborative effort of artist and master printer the image is then worked on the computer screen to get it as accurate as possible. In the Giclée process, a very fine stream of ink, more than four million droplets per second, is sprayed onto archival art papers. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than offset lithographs. This process offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of color available in any reproduction process.

In the last few years the Giclée print has become highly regarded by many of the world's important fine artists, collectors, galleries, and museums. Prominent Art Museums such as the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have hosted exhibitions featuring Iris Giclée prints.


So, anybody have anything on what makes this different than my "ink-jet" printer???

John