PRINTING TECHNIQUES
Giclee
Pronounced Jee-clay (or zee-clay if you're a bit pretentious and want to sound French). These are amazing archival, gallery quality fine art digital prints. The printing technique combines laying down pigment based inks at super high DPI resolution on high quality fine art paper stock to produce vibrant colour intensity and excellent black density, they are loved by illustrators and photographers alike.
These prints often have a delicate surface so we recommend extra care when handling and framing.
Screen print
Our screen prints are usually created by hand and printed by the artist in limited edition print runs. This involved process and level of detail includes creating screens and printing each individual colour separately, this ensures an extremely high quality result that is true to the artist’s original concept. Screen printing produces subtle transparent shades and deep vivid colours that give a luminosity and depth to the final artwork. Specialist inks and finishes can also be applied such as metallic, fluorescent and overlaid varnishes.
Risograph
Risograph's are beautiful prints created by a crazy looking machine that looks a bit like a vintage photocopier. In fact, it actually was initially designed to be a 'duplicator'. Riso has gained a recent resurgence with many artists who have embraced the unique tactile quality that these machines produce. Prints are created from stencils much like screenprinting and the rich spot colours have a brilliant vibrancy, slight variations and imperfections within a print run result in truly unique prints. Risograph are a very eco-friendly and affordable print process that has an unmatched aesthetic with many digital printing techniques.
Indigo
Indigo is a market leading digital printing technology that produces litho quality prints in a fraction of the time and avoids a costly and wasteful set-up process. Indigo is a digital press that uses a 7 colour "ElectroInk" which is a liquid toner. Colours stand out and are accurate, the resolution is greater and solid blocks are smoother.
C Type
‘C’ (Chromagenic) Type silver-based digital prints are the highest-quality prints for serious photography and printed on a selection of professional quality papers.
These digital prints are processed in a photographic developer, followed by bleach fix before being washed to remove the processing chemicals the same way as a traditional photographic print is made.