What is a Giclée - [How to get started] [Pricing] [Printing Agreement] [FAQs]

Giclée, commonly pronounced "jee-clay," is an invented term for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing.

The Giclée process requires that the original be scanned and recorded to a disc and then output with an integrity of color and image that is superbly close to the original. This allows the art buying public access to a product that has the look and feel of an original at a reduced cost than an "original".

Giclée printing has come a long way during the past decade. Once considered an unusual method of printing fine art prints, it is now well known and established. It’s unique because now most artists can afford to start an edition and enter the fine art reproduction world. There’s no inventory to carry. Printing on demand is the norm.

"Dozens of museums have mounted exhibitions or purchased giclées for their permanent collections. These include The Metropolitan Museum (New York), the Guggenheim (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston), the Philadelphia Museum, the Butler Institute (Youngstown, OH), the Corcoran (DC), the National Gallery for Women in the Arts (DC), the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (DC), the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the New York Public Library Graphic Collection, the High Museum (Atlanta), the California Museum of Photography, the National Museum of Mexico and the San Jose Museum, among others."