Giclee Canvas For The Common Man
Top quality printing done on archival canvas using original archival inks is called Giclee printing. Excellent quality inkjet printers that have the capacity to turn out astounding pictures with a spell binding picture resolution of 3000 DPI are used to print Giclee prints on canvasses.
From the point of view of an artist this method of impeccable reproduction of his original works on canvas is advertised by the multiple Giclee prints and he becomes popular. If he has only one canvas there is little opportunity for others to have a look at it. Now, with Giclee canvas prints his art will reach the common man with its low cost and with the popularity gained the value of the artist also rises dramatically. Soon his art works on canvas will be regarded as investment grade.
Giclee canvas has made reproduction works much easier now. Color separation has always been a head ache and the work could be reproduced only on art paper at an offset press. The inkjet printer is ideal to print even one or two Giclee prints on canvasses. Besides these canvases can even withstand direct sunlight and remain with a good luck for years. The Giclee print on canvas looks lively and as good as the original because of the pigment inks. Besides, the picture reproduced can be made to resemble the original by delicate adjustment of the contrast and color. Giclee canvas looks like the original because of the adjustment of brightness and exacting standards of color saturation.
Do you know what Giclee actually means? This is a French word that would roughly mean “sprayed on”. This is what the inkjet printer does to a canvas. Supposing you have a very good picture or a photograph that you feel would look smashing on a canvas. Can you hire an artist to do this for you? This will be an extremely expensive idea. But Giclee print on canvas is the ideal solution for you. All you have to do is to take your picture on a CD or send the photograph to a good Giclee studio and your dream canvas will be ready. This will be light on your purse too and would look as good as an original art piece. The brightness, contrast, and colors will match that of the original. It is indeed a truly moving experience to have a small post card sized picture to be printed onto a large canvas.
Giclee canvas prints are also considered as good gifts and as excellent marketing tools. Being captivating the customers would want to look at the canvas again and again and so the message that the marketing team likes to convey will reach a wide number of customers without fail.
As good soft wares are used, the Giclee canvas will have a lot of improvements made in the size of the picture and in the tone and color. A Giclee canvas is also given a good coat of UV varnish that will permanently protect the canvas from scratches and also sun light.