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Framing your Print / Giclée

Information / By Rakel Kristin Kanestrøm / May 24, 2019 September 30, 2021

What is most important for prints/giclées is that you need to have space (minimum 1.5 mm) between the artwork and the glass. That is one of the reasons to use a mat/matte/mount between the art and the glass. In Norway we use the French word passepartout for mat, which may also be associated with the …

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Interior image with two black-and-white prints. Instead of print I use the word Giclée to reflect the high quality in ink and paper.

What is Giclée?

Information / By Rakel Kristin Kanestrøm / March 10, 2019 September 6, 2020

A “Giclée Fine Art Print” is visual art printed on a high quality ink jet printer using lightfast ink on acid-free paper or canvas. It is also called digital print or digital graphics. A painting or another artwork is scanned or photographed, then it is often further digitally processed, before it is finally printed. Limited …

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