The Gicleé Print

Gicleé (zhee-klay) - French word meaning a spray or spurt of liquid.

Gicleé print describes images generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various surfaces such as canvas, watercolor, and photo paper. Giclee printing provides better color accuracy than other printing technologies. Giclee prints are created using professional ink-jet printers, which produce subtly-toned, sharply detailed prints for both fine art and photography.

Giclee prints offer many advantages to the artist. Images are printed on-demand. Once your image is digitally archived, you can order additional reproductions at a reasonable cost and with minimal effort. The high up-front setup cost of offset printing is eliminated. Gicleé images can be reproduced at almost any size and onto various media. The quality of the gicleé print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is now found in museums and galleries.

About the Epson 9600

Summary

• 44" wide format printer, nearly unlimited length
• Maximum resolution 2880 x 1440 dpi
• 4 picoliter droplet size
• Variable Droplet Micro Piezo DX3 drop-on-demand ink jet technology
• Uses 7-color Epson (CcMmYKk) UltraChrome" Ink

The Epson 9600 gives artists and photographers a powerful tool to realize their visions. Whether for photographic prints, reproductions of paintings or drawings, or original digital artwork, this superior printing technology will exceed your expectations.

The Epson 9600 was designed in collaboration with top photographers and printmakers, and it shows. The professional level Epson 9600 incorporates technologies that have never before been available to printing professionals, including advances in ink, print head and engine design.

Epson UltraChrome" Ink can produce prints with a stunning range of colors, as well as great-looking black and white photography. Taking full advantage of Epson UltraChrome" Ink technology, Epson engineered a brand new Micro Piezo DX3" print head able to produce images of 2,880 x 1,440 dpi.

Special features of the Epson 9600:

• Dramatically improves mid-tones and highlights for smoother transitions.
• Produces consistent image with no color crossover or color casts.
• Significantly improves the printer's gray balance, while eliminating color casts.
• Neutral blacks provided by the new UltraChrome inkset is largely due to the presence of a 7th ink, light black. This light black ink makes prints just as high-quality with black and white prints as with color.
• Reduces the metamerism effect of pigmented ink chemistry (metamerism refers to the tendency of certain inks to shift color, usually towards a green hue, when seen under different light sources).

Fade-Resistance with UltraChrome" Inks

Lightfastness of color UltraChrome" prints made on the Epson Stylus Pro 9600 is rated up to 82 years under glass; lightfastness of black and white prints is rated at more than 100 years under glass. (Ink lightfastness rating based on accelerated testing. Actual print stability will vary according to media, image, conditions, light intensity, humidity, and atmospheric conditions. See www.wilhelm-research.com.

Try gicleé printing

Wow, it's a Gicleé! offers gicleé printing on a variety of media, as well as finishing services. See our Pricing and Services page for more information.

Just download and complete the convenient Wow it's a Gicleé Order Form (requires Adobe Reader -free download)

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