Giclée fine art printing
The Graphical Tree
Working with our sister company, The Graphical Tree, we invest in technology to offer the best production service for our customers. This includes our ‘artist favourite printer’ Epson SureColor fine art inkjet, which produces archival-quality print for artists, photographers, and illustrators.
Giclée prints, pronounced zhee’clay [ʒikle] are produced using inkjet technology and pigment-based inks onto archival-quality paper to create high-quality, long life-time lasting fine art prints. These are perfect for photographers or artists who wish to display or sell their work as a one-off, or limited edition run.
About our giclée printing
We produce giclée prints at 1440 dpi, with 8 passes using the Epson UltraChrome
Pro 10-colour ink-set.
We use special sustainable archival quality paper with a variety of finishes and textures to choose from.
Our Giclée printers use pigment-based inks rather than dye-based inks. Pigment-based inks have a longer print lifespan and can last 65-85 years without any significant fading.
Giclee prints will outlast a traditional lithographic print and other reprographic technics by
up to six times the life length.
We only use a professional kit for our giclee service, the Epson SureColor 20000, which gives us a wide, maximum colour gamut, and allows us light-fastness, while producing vivid colour reproductions with brilliant saturation and depth.
Our printers also offer subtle shadow details, true blues and natural skin tones, as well as an impressive four levels of black including high-density photo and matte black inks for deeper, richer blacks and better grey balance and mid-tones than conventional inkjet prints. We also offer fantastic quality gradations with reduced graininess achieved thanks to Multi Size Droplet Technology (MSDT) and bronzing reduction to achieve accurate colours and colour fading resistance.
The printer features a K4 ink set; an impressively wide colour gamut, helping to achieve excellent lightfastness, vivid, stable colours, and intense saturation. This new ink set has been extensively tested and scientifically formulated to provide longevity, durability and water resistance.
How to order giclée prints
Ordering
For more information visit The Graphical Tree giclée page.
If you have any questions or would like to place an order, you can email The Graphical Tree here or give us a call on 020 7580 4405.
Please include the following info as required –
Paper type selected
Size of print(s)
Quantity
Is a border needed?
What size is the border?
Do you need delivery?
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Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® is one of the world’s most popular papers and a valued all-rounder for high-quality FineArt inkjet printing. This white cotton artist’s paper, with its soft feel, boasts a lightly defined felt structure, lending each artwork an impressive pictorial depth. Combined with the matt premium inkjet coating, the paper produces outstanding prints that feature brilliant colours, deep blacks, striking contrasts and perfect reproduction of detail. The acid and lignin-free nature of the paper meets the most exacting requirements for age resistance and is specially designed for FineArt applications.
Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth
Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Ultra Smooth is an especially smooth and silky soft paper for high-quality FineArt inkjet printing. The white cotton art paper has a discreet, very finely textured surface with a strikingly silky feel. The matt premium inkjet coating allows for impressive reproduction of colour, detail and very deep black. The acid and lignin-free all-rounder meets the most exacting requirements in terms of age resistance and is perfect for high-quality black and white FineArt prints, and perfect for both photography as well as art reproductions.
Hahnemühle German Etching
Hahnemühle German Etching is a traditional mould-made copperplate printing paper. The white art paper made from 100% alpha-cellulose is characterised by its velvety tactile feel and a fine clearly defined felt structure. The unique surface texture adds a very special touch to images, showcasing them in all their depth and splendour. The premium matt inkjet coating guarantees outstanding print results with excellent reproduction of colour and detail, deep black and optimum contrasts. As with other Hahnemühle papers we use, German Etching is acid and lignin-free and meets the most exacting requirements in terms of age resistance.
Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl
Hahnemühle FineArt Pearl is a cellulose-based FineArt inkjet paper with an inkjet coating specially tailored for FineArt use. The bright white paper has a delicately textured surface and a smooth, silky feel. In combination with the premium inkjet coating, it produces an elegant finish with a subtle, pearl-gloss effect. Once printed, the paper impresses with outstanding reproduction of colour and detail, deep blacks and striking contrasts. The acid- and lignin-free FineArt Pearl meets the most exacting requirements for age resistance and is ideal for printing high-quality black and white as well as colour photographs.
Epson Semi-Gloss
A great all-round paper, chosen for its photographic aesthetics, vibrant colour reproduction, high contrast and robust feel. Its semi-gloss, flat surface lends the artwork a photographic feel, combined with the subtle painterly feel of a Giclée fine art print. Our most lightweight paper of all Giclées. The surface is resin coated making it our strongest paper.
Canson Aquarelle Rag
This genuine 100% rag watercolour paper from Canson offers the unique structure, surface texture and warm white tone that artists expect from a traditional Fine Art paper. Mould made, the finest and oldest paper-making technic, Aquarelle Rag complies with the highest archival standards and is extremely age resistant.