Giclée printing

As well as being the North East’s number one picture framer and Giclèe Fine Art printer, we can provide image digital restoration and enhancement. We can also offer photography services, and one-to-one courses in using your own camera; image editing with Photoshop and using M. Office software. Follow the links, visit us at Consett, Co. Durham, or Telephone 01207 588850 for more information.

We scan using professional profiles, proof and print to the highest standards using paper up to archival quality and 12 pigment inks. You can see the excellent Client feedback here.

What is Giclée printing

Pronounced “jhee-clay”, Giclée is a sophisticated, high quality ink-jet printing method.  It merges the use of professional grade large format printers with archival pigment inks and high quality substrates (papers and canvases).

By using custom profiles, high-resolution scanning and meticulous colour correction, pigment printing can render subtle variations and many colours that would be out of range with other technologies.

The results are a very wide colour rendition (colour gamut) and very deep blacks (Dmax).

How does the Giclée printing process work?

Your original artwork or photograph is scanned or photographed by The Frame House, next the mage is ‘soft-proofed’ on our calibrated monitors, then the first proofing print is made on the medium requested by the artist.

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If the original work is available we proof files both for colour and detail using the canvas or paper requested before you are asked to check them.

The final proof, approved by the artist, is archived so that further prints can be produced without any further setting up.

Re-ordering is as easy as making a phone call.

How much does Giclée printing cost?

Each order is unique, but our trained staff can give you guidance on charges.

There are many companies offering Giclée printing services, either over the Internet or ‘shop based’. Often there is a wide range of prices for the same size of print.

In the end ‘you get what you pay for‘.

If quality in print permanence, colour and detail matching is important, stay away from low cost companies. Some printers have offices or websites in the UK but ship the work out to China, or buy the canvases from there.

Top quality papers and inks are expensive.   Careful corrections will take more time than a single-click ‘default’ change.   Quality inks and tested archival papers and canvases cost far more than their Chinese counterparts.

The Frame House is a member of the Fine Art Guild which means we have to meet their standards.

The Frame House uses only inks recommended by the printer manufacturer and custom media-specific profiles for the print process.