Bessie Pease Gutmann Fine Art Giclée Prints The process of making a Fine Art Giclée Print is an extremely customized method of reproducing original fine art. The "giclée" process is viewed by many artists as the closest thing to the artist's original work (and is the closest printing process to what Bessie Pease Gutmann was using for all her early chromolithographs). Unlike normal mass-produced printing methods, the giclée is a "print-on-demand" process that allows as few as one print to be made, with each print taking as long as an hour to make. Our fine art giclee printing process uses archival pigmented inks. giclée (pronounced "zhee-CLAY"). Derived from the french verb "gicler" meaning to spray or squirt. This is a new form of fine art reproduction. This process, different than the traditional off-set lithographic prints artists have traditionally used to reproduce their works, gives a much truer to the original look. Actually, the printer is a high end, large format ink jet printer. The artist's image is captured, proofed and printed digitally. The inks have been lab tested to withstand normal home lighting conditions for anywhere from thirty-five to two hundred years (depending on the ink and the paper used) before showing any sign of fading -- a greater life than some original works of art. Giclee's have the highest apparent resolution available today (with some ink droplets being the size of a red blood cell). In addition, since no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs and a color range that exceeds that of serigraphy. Displaying a full color spectrum, giclee prints capture every nuance of an original and have gained wide acceptance from artists and galleries throughout the world. Dozens of well know museums have purchased Giclee prints for their permanent collections. [References: Laroche Gallery Accola Gallery Aaron Art Watercolor Florals James Verdorn] Whereas cheaper "offset" printing processes use unstable oil-based inks, usually consisting of just four colors, our Epson giclee process uses at least six pigmented archival inks, and sometimes seven. The use of these extra colors produces a more brilliant and faithful color reproduction, and the archival pigment inks have been tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research to last about 80 to 100 years on the media we use, before any noticeable fading occurs. (Standard "offset" and "litho" printing inks have much less resistance to fading.) And just as important to the long-term beauty of our fine art giclée printing process is the paper we use. We believe our Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper is the most museum grade giclée paper available today. It is not only acid-free, but it is also lignin-free, chlorine-free, 100% cotton and buffered to protect it from environmental pollutants. Very few fine art prints today use such a high-quality paper. Indeed, if Gutmann and Gutmann had had such paper available to them in their day, few if any of their original reproduction prints would have the yellowing we see today. Just like Bessie Pease and her husband, who formed Gutmann and Gutmann to publish and reproduce Bessie's art, we use our best efforts to faithfully reproduce every Bessie Pease Gutmann original, one print at a time with our high-quality giclee process. The Stock Solution, Inc. is the exclusive authorized giclée publisher for Bessie Pease Gutmann prints. Bair Art Editions is the Stock Solution's exclusive fine art digital printer. "Bessie Pease Gutmann" is a trademark of The Flavia Company. All Bessie Pease Gutmann images copyright © The Flavia Company Victorian Clothing Stock Photos - Old Pictures - Inkjet Printer Reviews © 2003, The Stock Solution, Inc.