A friend of mine recently bought a fantastic new Epson wide format printer which can produce Giclee Reproductions of my art up to 44" wide and any length (not that I have done any paintings that huge yet, but you never know).
The printer works like a huge inkjet printer, squirting ink onto the canvas so that there is no visible dot pattern, and it sprays it over a fairly wide area at a time, so is quite speedy even in the highest resolution printing modes.
I've got three of my paintings available at this stage as Giclee Limited Edition canvas prints, and will be getting some more done shortly.
The Giclee Reproductions look fantastic. The colours and tones of them match the original painting so close, that it is really hard to pick which is the original and which is the reproduction.
I've just finished setting up a website to sell my reproductions and also have been able to include a large number of Giclee Reproductions by famous Australian artist and TV personality, Wayne Clements, who hosts the program "Art Studio" which is aired in Australia, and was host of "Class Art" which was aired internationally to 188 countries.
The Giclee prints on canvas look so much better that straight prints on paper and you have the advantage that you don't need to put them under glass, so this alleviates the glare problems of glass is you have the artwork opposite a window or a strong light source.
The new inks that the Epson 9900 printer uses are guaranteed against fading for somewhere between 75 and 100 years (depending which site is giving the info) but in either case that will no doubht outlast our lifetime.
The website I've put my Giclee Reproductions on is called Giclee Artists Prints which is pretty self explanatory.
