Many artists, photographers, gallery owners and museums would like to learn how to consistantly make professional quality giclées from their own ink jet printers. Professional printmaking studios often have tens or even hundreds of thousand of dollars invested in their equipment but anyone with a modest investment in equipment and time can learn to make professional quality prints. You don’t always need the latest and greatest gear to make a saleable print. Often, the only differences between what a professional digital printmaking studio can produce and what a talented artist can print themselves comes down to print size and quantity. With a few thousand dollars invested in a camera and a printer like an Epson 3800 any artist can be printing gallery quality 16x20 giclées.
With 90% of the quality of a giclée being determined by the quality of the capture, it makes sense to get this part right. More often than not artists think that because they have a digital camera they can shoot their own art and 90% of the time artists get the shot wrong. The photography end does not have to be difficult. In fact it is suprisingly easy — if you know how.
How to Print the Perfect Giclée is a downloadable PDF document that will guide you step by step through the giclée making process. Technically challenging subjects like digital capture, lighting and basic color controls are broken down to simple ABC steps with the emphasis on do this first then on to the next step rather getting lost in lengthy technical explanations. Every step is illustrated with photos and screen captures, clearly showing exactly how to complete each individual step. Capture, lighting, Photoshop processing, print settings, coating and stretching are all covered in this PDF.