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Mini » Note or Greeting Cards » Perma-stable Print » Fine Art Capture » New Canon Printers » The Giclée ProcessGiclée for high quality rine art reproductions. Giclée , a French word meaning to spray or squirt. The giclée process uses incredibly accurate computer controlled jets with streams as small as 1/100th the width of a human hair to apply pigmented inks to specialty papers or canvas. These materials have special coatings to accept the pigment inks used in making giclée prints. At LaserLight we researched many paper types and makers before settling on Hahnemüle. They've been making papers in Germany since 1584 with outstanding quality and consistency. Together with the Canon pigment inks, Wilhelm Imaging Research has predicted archival lengths over one hundred years. Capturing your artwork digitally is critical and requires the most advanced technology. The Cruse Synchron "moving table" capture camera, the most sophisticated camera available, is the best resource for reproducing your artwork without a flaw. The Getty Museum, the Smithsonian and the Vatican use this same camera. With its calibrated light source and "moving table" the Cruse Synchron will beat any other scanning camera or scanning systems on the market for the capture of fine art work. It also allows the capturing of framed artwork. Even capturing art that is under glass, in deep frames, or collages. After capture is complete, the digital file is sent to our computer for processing. This is where the skill of Master Color Corrector, Bill Nordstrom, matches the file to your original using his over 50 years of printmaking experience. Making the final print match or exceed the original painting is an art in itself. This calls for a great deal of patience and skill, which Bill is well practiced in performing. Application of your Giclée to the chosen paper is the final step. The printer used must be the best available. To ensure that your capture is accurately represented, we have chosen the Canon line of iPROgraf 12 color printers. We have installed two new printers, an iPROgraf 5000 17" printer, and iPROgraf 9000 60" printer. Canon has greatly increased the range of colors from six or eight, up to 12 color pigment inks. Employing RGB, CMY, LtC, LtM, and two blacks (matte and gloss) and a light and medium shade of gray, we are now able to achieve results previously unavailable in both color fine art printing and B&W photographic printing. With 12 color pigment inks capable of not fading for over one hundred years, widths to 60" and lengths to 120" or more and a variety of watercolor papers and canvas materials, we are able to reproduce any type of fine artwork or photographic originals without losing the impact or subtlety of the original.
Ben Willis
Giclée Print Prices
All prints are furnished with an additional 1 inch white border. Canvass come with 1 1/2 inch border for placing on stretcher bars. Additional width of borders my be ordered.
Shipping and handling:
Giclée prints are priced by the square inch as art seems to come in a variety of non-standard sizes.
To calculate print prices multiply the two dimensions of the print you wish to make (ex. size of printed wanted 15"x22" = 330 square inches). Multiply the square inches by the price from chart above. (ex. 330 x.19 = $62.70 for the 1st print). Additional prints ordered at the same time from this image 330 x .16 = $52.80. The cost for the 2 prints would be $62.50 + 52.80 =$115.50.
Contact sheets: $10.00 Prints to 24x30: $20.00 Unmounted large prints: $30.00 All shipping done by FedEx Economy (3 day) 2 day and overnight is available. The Giclée papers and canvass we recommendHahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White (Much like the Roland Tuscan)This 310 gsm paper is a wonderful bright white with exceptional smoothness for excellent color and black & white photographic output. It is also 100% cotton fiber, mould-made and is PH neutral, acid free and lignen-free. This heavier weight is specifically engineered for wide-format inkjet printing and is water resistant. Hahnemühle German Etching (This is a new paper that has a medium texture) This 310 gsm paper is bright white with a small amount of texture and is great for watercolor, pencil drawings and oil paintings. It is also 100% cotton fiber and mould-made like all of the Hahnemühle papers we are using. Hahnemühle William Turner (This is much like the Roland Provance) This is also a 310 gsm paper that is bright white with a heavier texture. It is also 100% cotton fiber and mould made. Hahnemühle Pearl Paper (This a new paper much like Museo Silver Rag) This is a superior fiber-based digital FineArt media with the look and feel of traditional fiber based darkroom photo paper with a medium gloss finish. It is 285 gsm and triple coated, lignin free,100% alpha-cellulose paper and feels heaver than it's 285 gsm thickness. It is significantly superior in D-Max, white point and surface structure. Ideal for Black and White images. As well, color photographs printed on this paper are just outstanding in color and max density and look much like our regular photographic prints but printed on Fine-Art archival paper and using inks that are much more archival than standard photographic papers. See special price list for Perma-Stable Prints. Intelicoat Magiclée 10ml Luster RC Photo Base This is a 10 mil low cost Luster RC coated photo base. The prints look just like our photographic prints. We use this when making large photo type prints bigger than 30x40. When they are mounted and displayed they look just like our regular prints only larger. The large prints (up to 60x74) we have on display in our shop are all made on this material. Because the cost of this paper is so much lower we are able to make inkjet prints that match our regular color photographic prints in price. Intelicoat Magiclée 21 ml Glossy Canvas. This is a High Gloss 21 mil Poly/Coton blend canvas for high quality digital output. This gloss canvas provides excellent color gamuts and image stability. The gloss surface gives a higher max-Density thus blacker blacks and a more color saturated image. UltraStable "Century" 20 mil Matte Canvas. (Like the canvas we have been using.) This is 20 mil Matte canvas. The testing UltraStable has done with Wilhelm-Research indicates that the matte inkjet coating that they are using will extend the life of the pigments by about 50%. New papers and canvass will be offered as they become available. Mini Giclée PrintsEver wish you had small, inexpensive samples that could easily be given away or sold to prospective buyers or interested clients? Need something to encourage cash flow with your customers? These new services are a great way to promote your business with quality you know you can trust and color that will match your full size fine art reproductions perfectly. Small prints, Small price! Mini Giclée Prints on any of our Fine Art papers with a maximum image size of 8x10 with a white border to fill an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet. Three different layouts are suggested or we can use your layout design. Three different layouts are suggested. One plain, one with a small rule (in black or any color), and one with type added. Or we can use your layout design. Reproduced in quantities of 6 for $10.00 each or 10 for $9.00 each.Note or Greeting CardsGreeting or Note Cards - Printed on the luxurious Velvet Crane Card stock to match your original art work or photograph. Your artwork or photograph on the front, and your name and web site (or e-mail) on the back. Full size 5 1/2" x 7 3/8" cards come with envelopes that do not require extra postage. These cards are marketable at the $4.50 to $5.50 price point. They can also be framed as a very small giclée print. You can order these large greeting cards in lots of 10 for $2.25 per card.Fine Art CaptureThe Cruse Synchron is a moving-table fine art digital camera. It can capture artwork up to 36 by 48 inches in one pass and output a digital file with a resolution as high as 1000 lines per inch, The Cruse Synchron solves problems inherent in conventional ways of capturing paintings and mixed media art. For example, when you photograph a painting with a large view camera and make a 4x5 transparency, shadows may be too dark, the highlight muddy or washed out, and the corners vignetted due to the normal fall off of a lens. Photographing a painting with a digital camera back sidesteps some issues, but is still hard to compensate for normal lens fall-off (the tendency for the corners of an image to be darker than the center) and to achieve even lighting and have the painting completely square in the final file. The Cruse Synchron has a linear CCD array aligned to the center of the lens for best sharpness. The digital image that is captured is color corrected by a careful color calibration. The Cruse Synchron's table moves under the color-corrected fluorescent lights, giving a perfectly even light and an image that's square and sharp from corner to corner. Paintings that are in frames, even big ones, with or without glass can be captured without taking the frame apart.Captures for Giclée printing, now or in the future.
RAW Capture on CD only
Perma-Stable PrintThe "perma" comes from the permanent pigment ink that we use to make our prints and the "stable" from the outstanding Hahnemühle Pearl 100% fiber base. We use the Canon iPF9000 Giclée printer with 12 colors of pigments to make these prints. The Lucia pigment inks used in the Canon printer have preliminary ratings by Henry Wilhelm at over 100 years for color and significantly beyond that for B&W images. Hahnemühle Pearl Paper is a superior fiber-based Fine Art media with the look and feel of traditional fiber based darkroom photo paper with a medium gloss finish. It is significantly superior in D-Max, white point and has a smooth semi gloss surface structure. We can print B&W that has the look of the cool B&W photographic prints or a slight warm tone like the old warm toned photo papers. Color prints have an outstanding look of depth and sharpness. To print everything we can out of our digital files all images are 300dpi RGB in Adobe 98 color space and are up scaled to 16 bit color. The Canon iPF9000 printer is one of only a few that can print directly in 16 bit color. The prints are made at the Canons highest level of print quality printing at 2400x1200dpi at 16 pass. The dot structure is so fine you must use as least a 10x magnifier to see any sign of a dot. My life long search for the best color print.
When I was in High School about 1950 I first started trying to make Dye Transfer color prints. They were not very good. A couple years later when in a Photographic school in LA I made a few Tri-Color Carbro pigment transfer prints. They took about 12 hours to make each print. I learned a lot about Dye Transfer printing. It was a great process and lasted until the mid 1990's. There were many things that could be done while making the final print to change the color and tone scale.
When color negative printing was introduced I supervised the setting up of the first color negative lab in Portland. I then moved into the Graphic arts field of prepress and into color separations for prepress.
I stayed in pre-press color separations for quite a number of years. I started a couple of different companies in the prepress world. All the while I had a darkroom at home and was making color negative prints for fun and pleasure. Always trying to improve the process as it changed over the years. In later years as I moved into the digital world in prepress, I learned what we could do in digital prepress was so much better than what the darkroom offered it became very frustrating.
I started working with the UltraStable pigment transfer process as it was the first to join the digital Graphic Arts world with fine art printing of photography. A number of investors wanted me to develop an easier pigment transfer process. I found that the Agfa prepress proof could be modified to make a permanent print that would last many hundreds of years. We made Ever-Color prints but the materials were expensive and took a lot of time. When the LightJet digital printer came out it was a real marriage of the digital world with photography. I started LaserLight based on that excellent process. Improved on it with the Chromira printer. Great prints but I have kept looking for a better and more permanent Fine Art print.
With the new Canon iPF printer, the permanent Lucia 12 color pigment inks and the Hahnemühle Pearl paper I think I am again at the state of the art of fine art printing. The inks are transferred from the cartridge by spraying (Giclée ) onto the finest of Fine Art papers. I've come full circle from the Tri-Color Carbro pigment transfer prints to the new Perma-Stable prints that are also a pigment transfer process.
Prints can be made from the following:
Furnished Transparency or Black and White negative
Bill Nordstrom
Scan and 8x10 Pearl proof, $75.00 each image From furnished digital file or from files we archived for you 8x10 Pearl proof recommended before printing large file, $25.00 each image
Matting and MountingWe can furnish prints mounted and matted ready to add a frame. Bainbridge Archival Artcare foam board and their Alpharag Artcare 100% rag board is a whole new system to archive your prints. Bainbridge foam board is chemically an dphysically engineered to prevent any harmful out gassing of foam and protect the artwork mounted on it. Their Alpharag Artcare board proactively traps and neutralizes pollutants and acid by-products that can damage your prints. We mount Perma-Stable prints by hinge mounting them on the archival foam board and using polyester guides on the bottom and sides to keep the print flat. We double mat 2 white mounts on top with ¼ inch spacing.
New Canon PrintersCanon iPF 9000 12 Color 60 inch wide and 17 inch wide Giclée inkjet printers.Larger giclee prints, 12 archival pigment inks, expanded color gamut, new Hahnemühle papers. At LaserLight we strive to always stay on top of technology in order to provide the best possible service to our customers. We are pleased to bring this technology to you and your coveted art work and photographic reproductions. Introducing the CANON Image PROGRAF Giclée printers; prints up to 60"wide, 12 color LUCIA pigment inks that make prints lasting over 100 years and printed on a wide variety of papers and canvas. Canon has set the standard for others to follow. The new LUCIA pigment inks have a stunningly wide color gamut at least equal to that of Adobe RGB color space. In addition to the typical CMYK ink set for color they added a light Cyan, light Magenta, Red, Green, Blue and a trio of Blacks and grays to make your images come to life. Together they generate strong, bold, yet not over saturated color while maintaining subtlety in highlights and shadows. For those looking for good black and white prints look no further. Three levels of black ink including light gray, medium gray and either a matte black or gloss black work to make black and white prints that look like traditional silver gelatin prints. We have added a new set of papers made by Hahnemühle to improve the color gamut and surfaces we offer. Including an outstanding 100% fiber based paper that looks and feels much like traditional fiber photo paper. For more information give us a call or stop by and check out our new printers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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