Surfing  around the web you can find hundred sites related to giclee printing, and all of them claim that they can  produce high quality fine art reproduction but with huge variation of the price. what goes wrong, due to the labor cost? oe something else? You can look one quite good article about the giclee printing, giclee information. This article pointed out three basic elements of the Giclee printing technique, "the term giclee refers to the use of professional grade inkjet printers, pigmented inks and fine art papers and canvas."  As far as known, there still has three more elements involved, the quality of digital images,  print management software that drives entile printing procedure, and the technical background of the operators for color adjustment, creat mirror image for stretched if necessary and the things for after-printing, like surface coating, gallary wrap, what kind of stretched bar used, what is the thickness of the bar, or what kind of frames, mats etc.

   Arts, even we talk about arts reproduction, it is also a serious matter, people also need passion in order to make a museum quality reproducted fine art.

(1) Professional ink jet printer, there are many very good giclee printingmachines in the market, we do not know which is the best, we do know what we used is good enough in giclee printing field, Epson stylus 9880 and Epson stylus 11880,  these are professional inkjet printer in giclee printing field.

(2) Pigmented ink is a standard requirement for giclee printing, we used Epson UltraChrome K3, a revolutionary latest pigmented ink.

(3) For the fine art paper or canvas, if you check that price of different fine art papers or artist canvas, ten times difference in price may suprise you. Normally we use Epson watercolor fine art paper, acid free textured fine art paper or acid free smooth fine art paper for giclee on paper; using Epson Premium Canvas Matte or acid free 100% cotton canvas, for giclee on canvas. Also we used some chinese made silk cloth and 100% cotton artist canvas at very competitive price, especially for decroation purpose.

(4) Imaging processing and printing control are complex procedure, a good software are the key for producing quality image, that is the reason we select ELF.

Here we do not want to talk too much about our expert in giclee printing or how good our work in gallary wrap, famed, till you receive the products from us. In conclusion, the price different in giclee printing comes from the pinter, the inks, arts paper or canvas, you can check here to see the combination of the good ink and media can bring your fine arts lasting longer. it is a PDF format documentation, you can download that and check the performance rating.

     Virtually any digital image that you can send us can be transferred to canvas as long as it does not infringe any copyright ownership. As a general rule, there is no problem as long you own the copy and your intentions is to use the canvas transfer for your personal enjoyment and not for commercial purposes. We can transfer your photos, posters, art prints, photocopies, drawings, books or magazine images, maps or any other image that you wish to send us.

    We prefer digital images rather than original hard copies, because we have no intention to take responsibility for any responsibility that this material may be damaged due to any enexpected causes. If you sent original copies to us that means you agreed that you will take the risk about the any possible damages. We will take our best care to keep you things and scan that using peofessional digital scanner to get the digital images about the artwork.

   Finally we still transfer digital image to canvas.

   The printer determined the width of the image, for Stylus 9880 the largest width can be 44", and 64" for Stylus11880. The length of the output depend on the length of the canvas or paper, and also depend on the processing power of the computer we used to process your image, (depend on the complexity of your image), normal we do printing artworks about 18'.

    Your digital image size and resolution is another factors for the size of products, giclee printing can reach about 350DPI, that means we need your image resolution at lease about 200DPI, 300DPI is better, and we also prefer acutal size printing that can keep the great detail of your original copy. That means if you want to print a 24"x36" image on canvas or paper, we need a digital field with size 24"x36", 300dpi, because in general, digital file will be stored or sent by jpg format, each time the file opened and saved will lost

some information, actual size file is better than 12"x18" with 600dpi, or 48"x72" with 150dpi. For image processing, to reduce the size of the image will casue less damage than enlarge the image.

    Our experienced technician will give you recommendation after receiving your images, if you still insist on your opinion we will not response for the quality of the image produced, Therefore a pilot or proving image can be purchasing beforehand to ensure the quality of the final products.