About Giclee Printing Giclee (zhee-clay) - Derived from the French verb gicler meaning to squirt. The term giclee print typically connotes a certain elevation in printmaking technology. Images are high-resolution digital scans printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates. The giclee process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction. Giclee prints (also known as Iris prints) are advantageous to artists who find it not feasible to mass produce their work, but want to reproduce their art as needed. Once an image is archived, additional reproductions can be made with minimal effort and cost. Thus the up-front cost of mass production is eliminated and printing is done on demand. Another tremendous advantage to Giclee printing is that artwork can be reproduced to almost any size and on various media, giving the artist the ability to customize prints for a specific client. The technology that we use is state of the art; printing from an Iris printer, which sprays ink from 4 jets at 1,000,000 droplets per second, using 32 different sized droplets. This unique process creates the tones, hues, and shadowing that exactly reproduces the original artwork. The reproduction is created on watercolor paper with exact color matches. The cost of the exact reproduction is high, so the prints are almost as much as the originals. About Yupo Paper Yupo paper is imported from Japan and is 100% synthetic acid free. It is a new ultra smooth synthetic paper that has a velvety smooth surface, which takes pen, ink, pencil and marker. As a watercolor paper it has the advantage of being non-absorbent, so colors sit on the surface. The colors are much more brilliant than with standard watercolor paper. Yupo paper also allows you to completely wipe off unwanted sections of your painting, making it the first erasable watercolor paper.