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giclee prints
Robert Beck, Photographer
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Carlsbad | CA | USA | Posted: 2:57 PM on 07.08.09 |
| ->> I'm assuming this is the best way to make an archival print from a digital image. What papers look/work the best and any suggestions for a good lab? |
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Juliann Tallino, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Port Townsend/Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 3:17 PM on 07.08.09 |
->> I took a photoshop class with this guy, he seems pretty knowledgeable. He made giclee prints in his lab of our final projects. Pretty cool process. His Lab is a bit north of you in Santa Monica
http://www.duganne.com/ |
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Joe Morahan, Photographer
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Denver | Co | USA | Posted: 6:03 PM on 07.08.09 |
->> Robert,
I am a little unsure of where in Carlsbad a great printer might be, but A&I in Santa Monica does great quality prints.
Personally I love the way Giclee prints look on Canvas. With a nice gloss, there is nothing like it.
Another plus with the canvas prints, there is no need for glass on a frame. That comes in handy when there is a lot of light in a room, and glass might give some reflection, but the canvas glows in the light. Also the prints can be rolled up, stretched out, they can be framed, or even a gallery wrap.
I hope this helps a bit- |
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Anthony Sanson, Photographer
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Warsaw | IN | | Posted: 7:11 PM on 07.08.09 |
->> Robert,
I am not sure what you mean by "giclee"---sometimes people will use this word instead of inkjet and many will use it when they make a print on canvas with an inkjet. Ofcourse, the archival part is just pigment ink on expensive paper. If you what just an archival print that looks great, personally, I use and many of my fine art friends use HARMAN PHOTO BARYTA FB (much like the darkroom fiber base paper) or a very nice fine art matt paper.
BTW I love your website! Always look forward to seeing your photos in SI. |
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Steven Mullensky, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Port Townsend | WA. | USA | Posted: 10:34 PM on 07.08.09 |
->> Maybe this will help. I make Giclee prints all the time using an Epson 4000, chromatic inks and museum type paper.
Giclée (pronounced /ʒiːˈkleɪ/ "zhee-clay" or /dʒiːˈkleɪ, from French [ʒiˈkle]) is an invented name (i.e. a neologism) for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray"
It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. |
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Karl Stolleis, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Santa Fe | NM | | Posted: 11:17 PM on 07.08.09 |
->> I second either the Harman baryata or Hannemule (sp?) also makes a baryata coated paper that looks and feels just like older fiber, bromide papers but looks great printed in color.
In terms of archival, that really has to do with the inks being used. The Canon large format printers are really pretty good, so look for a lab with those.
Other options are digital files printed to actual photo paper, but the papers are usually color print papers and stabilized so they are less than archival. |
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Robert Beck, Photographer
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Carlsbad | CA | USA | Posted: 1:38 AM on 07.09.09 |
| ->> Anthony, you are kind. Thanks for the comments. So my Epson R2400 prints giclee and I didn't know it? On Gallerie Pearl? |
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Dinno Kovic, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 1:23 PM on 07.09.09 |
->> Hi Robert,
I'm not sure if you want to stay local but photo works out of San Francisco does Giclee printing and they ship all over the place
http://www.photoworkssf.com/
Cheers,
Dinno |
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Bert Entwistle, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 1:45 PM on 07.09.09 |
->> Robert,
I have been doing some in Giclee, (I think it's pronounced "Zee-Clay"), in the watercolor paper version and love the results. I use a lab locally and use the archival inks etc.
bert |
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David Stluka, Photographer
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Oregon | WI | USA | Posted: 1:09 AM on 08.21.09 |
| ->> There's a printer outside of Madison, Wisconsin that does a lot of work for museums all over the country. Excellent work and a master technician. All they do is printing. You get what you pay for with Star Printz. The best paper and pigmented inks printed on custom profiled Canon iPF9000 and Epson 9800 printers. They have done their research on all stocks of paper and inks. Highly recommended. www.starprintz.com |
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