Giclee Printing

Fine Art Giclée Printing

Giclée is a French term meaning, "spray of ink". Iris is the ink jet printer that produces digital print resolutions of 1,800 dots per inch. This is a higher resolution than a traditional lithographic print and a wider color gamut than a serigraph print. Fine Art Giclées render deep, saturated colors that have a beautiful painterly quality retaining minute detail, subtle tints and blends and rates the term "Collectable.”

Fine Art Giclée prints have been shown in museum and galleries throughout the world: National Gallery of Women in the Arts (Washington DC), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum (New York), and the British Art Museum – just to name a few .

Nicholas Black Fine Art Giclée Prints

With the advent of the Giclée, the art of fine art printing has become even more precise. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is similar to a serigraph. Nicholas Winter Black Fine Art Giclées are produced by a fine stream of ink - more than four million droplets per second - sprayed onto BFK archival art paper or canvas. The effect is similar to an airbrush technique but much finer. Each piece is carefully hand mounted onto a drum which rotates during printing. Exact calculations of hue, value and density direct the ink of four nozzles. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes, (with over 3 million colors possible) of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink. Mr. Black’s personal color approval and input are essential for creating the final custom setting for each edition.

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