Giclées: the new "collectables" of the art world.
 

A giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a new type of fine-art print. The term giclée is French and means "spurted or squirted". As a printing process, giclée printing is mechanically similar to inkjet printing as used by many home desk-top printers. That is where the similarity ends though, because giclée printing has features that take the process into the realm of true fine-art reproduction.

There are a few key elements that make giclée prints what they are: the Rolls Royce of fine-art prints.

First and foremost is the exceptional quality of colour together with the invisibly fine resolution. The process actually uses pigment-based inks so the accuracy with which a giclée compares to the original painting is outstanding.

From the hands of a professional giclée printer, expect a result practically indistinguishable from the original painting. Added to the pigment-based inks, you have not only an original work on canvas actually reproduced on canvas, but also a further protective coating that gives a lab-tested shelf life under normal conditions of a hundred years plus.

Giclées are well established in the art world. They are bought and sold in world class auctions and galleries routinely for several thousand dollars. Numerous examples of giclée prints can today be viewed on display in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.