Etching on copper plate using hard ground, soft ground and Dutch mordant acid.
FINE ART GICLÉE PRINTING SERVICE FOR ARTISTS
Fine art Giclée printing service for artists - A3 flat artwork scanned and printed for £150.
Are you an artist? Have you a portfolio of small watercolours, drawings or acrylic paintings that you exhibit locally or on a website. Ever sold a picture you really liked only find that more people wanted to buy it too?
You’ve probably thought of getting your favourite pictures printed but have been deterred by the technicalities and then the cost!
Up until about ten years ago this would have meant 4 colour lithographic printing, setting up plates, halftone screening and commitment to large print runs - fine if you want an edition of 250 but a tad expensive if you just wanted 10!
You’ve probably looked into giclee printing but are not quite sure what it entails, or indeed if it is quite what it claims to be. (See What is a giclée print?)
To set this up yourself you would need:
1 A fairly fast PC with extra memory and decent graphics card and a copy of photoshop or something similar
2 An A3 quality scanner (don’t confuse this with the £30 A4 scanners you can get! Good quality A3 scanners are around £600!)
or
An SLR digital camera (preferably 8 mega pixels)
The scanner will always produce far better quality images (a 300dpi A3 scan would be equivalent to the image produced by a 17 mega pixel camera, would have perfect lighting and no depth of field or distortion problems)
3 An A3 giclee printer. Again a world apart from your bog standard A4 inkjet printer. The technology is basically the same but giclee printers use pigments which are light-fast and waterproof (I left my first prints in the bath for a day to check this!). They also use 8 colour cartridges instead of 4 and can print onto “proper” art paper and card.
I have been producing giclée prints of my own paintings for the last two years - they are accurate, popular, affordable and I am now offering the same service to other artists.
For £150 including Post and packaging
I will scan any artwork you supply, providing it is under A3 (11 inches by 16 inches) and flat (on thick paper or card)
I will send you an A4 proof to check the colours and if you are happy I will then print 10 same size as original prints on A3+ (13 inches x 16 inches) 310 GSM Hahnemühle "German etching" Fine art Archival quality paper at 360 dpi.
These, your original artwork, and a CD with the scanned file (JPEG and TIF formats) will be sent to you special next day delivery packed flat in a sturdy cardboard envelope.
Please contact me with any further questions
COLIN BAILEY
ARTIST & PRINTMAKER
Fine art Giclée printing
service for artists