Giclee is French for "to spray" (pronounced "zhee-clay"). In short, it is a process in which the original image is scanned or rendered digitally. Graphic artists at the printery work with the image and color correct to attain the closest possible match to the original work. This digital information is fine tuned to the type of paper or surface which the image is to be printed, further ensuring fidelity to the original. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is like serigraphy.

In the Giclee process, a fine stream of ink-more than four million droplets per second of EPSON UltraChrome© (archival) inks is sprayed onto bright white acidfree coldpress watercolor stock or on non-glare acidfree 10 mil. resin coated paper. This stock offers superior water resistance and is 50 times more durable to sun exposure than lithographs. The effect is similar to an air brush technique, but much finer.

Giclee printmaking offers one of the highest degrees of accuracy and richness of color available in any reproductions technique. Giclee printmaking provides a luminosity and brilliance that represent the artist's original work better than any reproduction technique available today. All of this information is stored and used for each individual print, which retains previously unheard-of quality from the very first print in an edition to the very last.

** A Serigraph is created when paint is 'pushed' through a silkscreen onto paper or canvas. A different screen is used for each color in the print, and this results in a print with great color density and many qualities of the original piece in terms of color saturation. This process also adds some texture to the final product.

** A Lithograph is the least manually intensive reproduction technique, and in turn, is not as expensive as a serigraph or Giclee. Although images can have a high resolution, and an excellent appearance, they will not have the same degree of color fastness, resolution, color density or life-span as a serigraph or Giclee.