The Marvels Of Giclee Printing For Artists to Create Art Prints

I confess I have come late in life to this form of copying technology. I cannot imagine anything that could have helped the amateur artist more to market their work effectively and economically. The cost and versatility of this form of copying has fallen dramatically in recent years. Any artist should check it out if they have a goal to publish their work.

The cost of the scanners and printing machines has dropped and the size at which they can function has increased. As a result many more speciality copy shops and printers have them or have access to them. But what is far more material is no longer does one have to finance hundreds or even thousands of conventionally produced copies, such as lithographs. Now one can order the art prints pretty well as one wants them and in reduced or enlarged sizes, compared with original. This means their use on greetings or other cards becomes a formality.

And one can only describe the art print quality as embarrassing. Why! Because the standard of reproduction is so phenomenal that it is impossible to tell the copy apart from the original. Does this allow unscrupulous behaviour. I guess it could. But what it does allow is an artist to sell excellent prints of their work at economic prices to those for whom an original would be too expensive.

You still can benefit materially from going to a printer who is skilled in Giclee printing and who has an acute eye for colour tints. There can still be a degree of man management of the scanning and reproductive process that can make that ultimate copy.But it is a perfect process for mixed media ink pointillism.

I have also come across artists who have set themselves with their own machines. They have acquired the necessary training. They are not only producing their own fine art prints, but producing them for others. The fact that printing can be achieved on various surfaces, canvass and watercolour paper included, means they can develop entrepreneurial businesses very simply.

Sometimes erroneously referred to as Iris prints, Giclee art prints are reproduced on 8 to 12 colour ink-jet printers. They are designed to respond to the very high resolution scan already conducted on an original by squirting the ink on to the paper to match the scan exactly..

The achievable advantages seem endless! The ink can be the best long-lasting ink enabling one to give 15 year warranties on them against them fading if the usual sensible precautions are taken. The high definition scanned image of the original can be stored digitally to be used as required.

If you are an artist, do check it out on the internet. It presents so many exciting possibilities. Even if you have produced just one masterpiece, you have it copied for your family or friends.It could then motivate you to produce more!