Hi Tina
What do you mean by digital giclee prints? I think
someone else asked about this. You might want to reply
on list.
Thanks
Colin
Hi Colin!
Giclee is a "fancy" term used to describe photographic inkjet prints. They
were originally produced on Iris proof printers which cost $20,000.0 plus.
Over the past few years Epson has come out with a number of printers capable
of making real photo quality prints on a wide variety of artist papers such
as watercolour. The problem with Epson is that their inks are not very
archival at all. However many third party companies producing archival ink
for both colour and black and white work soon appeared, and people started
filling their own cartridges with the archival ink. The printers range from
desktop 8 1/2 x 11 in size up to the epson 9000 which can produce prints
about 40" wide and any length. The latest wrinkle is that the newest epson
printers have a digital chip in the cartridge to prevent third party non
epson ink cartridges from being used. No one is happy about this, and it
remains to be seen if Yankee ingenuity can get around it! The reviews of
epson's latest effort to produce an archival ink/paper combination are
mixed. It also gets quite expensive if one cannot refill or use a continuous
bulk ink system feed. There are high end service bureaus that produce
prints, again quite pricey. I could go on for pages, its a whole other
photographic world!
From: Colin Talcroft <ctalcr...@yahoo.com>
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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:04:32 -0800 (PST)
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