Giclées

Giclée commonly pronounced "zhee-clay" is an invented term for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using inkjet printing.

The word "giclée", from the French language word "gicleur" meaning "nozzle", was created by Jack Duganne, a printmaker, to represent any inkjet based digital print used as fine art.

The word "giclée", as a fine art term, has come to be associated with prints using fade resistant, archival inks and the printers that use them.

Artists tend to use the giclée printing process to make limited edition, high end reproductions of their original two-dimensional artwork, photographs or computer generated art. Giclée style printing has the added advantage of allowing the artists to control every aspect of the image, its color and the substrate printed on. Because of this, giclée style prints can technically be called "prints", i.e. an image where the artists have a hand in actual production.

PARKLANE'S UNIQUE PERSONALIZED SERVICE

PARKLANE uses a unique, personalized approach to create giclées for artists/clients. Special attention is given to the uniqueness of every piece of art when it is photographed into a high resolution digital image. Once the setup process resulting in full color matching is acheived, then the artist/client is invited to participate in the final color balancing and fine tuning process. Reproductions are printed using archival inks and a wide choice of archival papers and canvases to any custom size desired.

PARKLANE maintains a copy of the digital file so that additional copies can be printed at the artist's/client's request at any time in the future.