Giclée Fine Art Prints
(pronounced: zhee-CLAY)

 Giclée prints are museum-quality fine art prints using state-of-the-art digital technology. Artists, galleries, and museums worldwide recognize giclée as the finest methodology for producing accurate archival fine art prints.

The Process

1. A historic map or art image is “captured” on a scanner to produce a high-resolution digital image.
2. Depending upon the artwork and other factors, the digital image is enhanced (repaired and/or edited) using Photoshop image editing software.
3. In some cases imperfections are repaired using the image editing software. In other cases the imperfections from the original artwork are considered to be of historic significance and are left alone.
4. Printing is done one image at a time on high-resolution 6- and 7-color ink-jet printers using fade-resistant archival inks, and archival paper.

 The result is a museum-grade fine art print that will last a minimum of 100 years.

Jack Duganne, a fine art printmaker, coined the term giclée to denote prints made from a digital source and printed on inkjet printers. The term itself is adapted from the French “le gicleur” meaning “to squirt, spurt, or spray.”

While the process was invented in the early 1990s, advances in technology have lead to a three-fold increase in resolution and archival qualities.

Materials & Equipment

Giclée
StockMapAgency.com offers printing on a lightly textured, acid free, lignin free natural white 100% cotton rag fine art paper. This paper is specifically made to be long lasting, with crisp color reproduction that is highly favored by artists and printers for art-style prints. We use the highest quality Aqueous inks available, resulting in a fine-art archival museum-quality print that you will treasure for a lifetime.

We offer our large format prints (larger than 49 inches) on a specially designed "artists" canvas cloth with solvent inks, resulting in a durable, long-lasting print.

StockMapAgency.com is proud to offer giclée prints produced on Epsom and Mimaki equipment, recognized as the finest in the world.

Photo Quality
Our modern map products are offered on a glossy, heavy weight paper designed for high print detail reproduction. We highly recommend the laminated option as a more durable product if you are not planning on framing the print under glass. Our laminate is a single side laminate and increases the overall dimensions slightly.