Limited edition Giclée Prints

Giclée (pronounced zhee-CLAY), is French for "a spurt or spray," in this case of ink.  It's an art world tag applied to a digital ink-on-paper print process using an Iris Graphics high-resolution inkjet printer, lightly modified to accept fine watercolor and printmaking papers.  Giclée printing is rapidly gaining popularity and competing with the traditional processes of lithography (fine offset printing) and Serigraphy (fine silkscreening) in the commercial fine art world of limited edition print publishing.

The giclée print excells in its capacity to reproduce original art with unlimited exactness and precision.  The look and feel of a finely crafted giclée print can be so beautiful as to be astounding.  The inks are sprayed — four million drops of ink per second — into the fibers of fine art watercolor papers and become a unified part of the paper.  This marriage of color and fiber creates a very rich, luminous quality, with amazing clarity, tonality and color fidelity.  Unlike chemical photography and printmaking, Giclée prints are environmentally friendly, utilizing water-based, non-toxic organic inks on fine 100% rag papers.

With your giclée print, there will be no yellowing and its inks have been more highly tested than either silkscreen or lithographic inks.  The giclée prints of Angela Manno are done on 100% archival materials: Somerset Velvet Paper and Equipoise Ink Set.

Angela Manno worked with traditional fine art printmakers and digital printmakers to produce her limited edition prints.  The artist supervised the process every step of the way to ensure the highest color accuracy while maintaining the vibrancy and delicate reality of her original pastel landscapes.

These museums, and others, have exhibited Iris giclée prints or added them to their permanent collections: 

Other artists using giclée include:
Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Chuck Close, Annie Liebovitz

Each print comes with a Certificate of Limited Edition.