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Is this a painted canvas?
No, It is a digital print. We use pigment based archival inks printed at a high resolution which reveals great detail and texture.
It looks like a painting but it is not.
What are your Sizes?
Canvas Prints On Wood 11" x 16" $25.00 ( Most Unique Style)
Unframed Prints
11.75" x 36" $65.00
13" x 19" $25.00
20" x 20" $65.00
Gallery Wrapped Canvas
11.75" x 36" $225.00
20" x 20" $165.00
20" x 35" $225.00
30" x 30" $350.00
30" x 40" $365.00
40" x 40" $379.00 JUMBO SIZE
We will customize sizes if you wish please Email us la@lamoderndesign.com
Are your canvas prints on real canvas or is it just a canvas transfer or texture applied?
The canvas we print on is a genuine artist canvas. The canvas has a special water resistant coating to accept the pigmented
inks. It is made by a leading artist canvas company. After the pigment inks dry overnight, two coats of a satin finish UV
protective sealer or varnish is applied by hand. The finished canvas is still flexible and easy to stretch. The satin finish sealer
gives the artwork a rich, non-glare surface with a subtle canvas texture.
Which is better, an image printed on canvas or printed on paper?
We wouldn't say that one is better than the other. It really depends on the overall look and type of framing options that you
would like to use. Prints on photographic paper are traditionally matted and framed behind glass or acrylic. Images printed
on canvas don't need to be behind glass or acrylic. This means no reflections and less weight for large prints. Canvas prints
can be “gallery wrapped” and hung on a wall without using a picture frame. Or they can be stretched and framed.
We are selling more and more prints on canvas, especially in the larger sizes.
What is a "Gallery Wrap"?
In a gallery wrapped canvas you will have a finished edge ready to hang as is.. The Canvas is stretched on wooden stretcher
bars and the image wraps around and is stapled to the back-you will not see the staples only a nicely finished edge.
This gives the art a modern contemporary look.
What are the shipping costs?
We offer FREE SHIPPING anywhere in the continental U.S. (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).
What if I am not happy with my canvas?
We stand behind our products 100% But if for some reason you do not like it, contact us with your receipt number withinin 30
days of purchase-merchandise returned in original packaging prepaid FedEx ground-will receive a full refund less shipping and
handling.
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WHAT IS A GICLEE???
Giclee-- is the use of the ink-jet printing process for making fine art large format digital images. "Giclee" is a made-up word
that sounds French and very classy. Giclee is pronounced zhee-clay. The term from the French verb gicler meaning "to
squirt, to spray" .
The term, Giclee- is used to describe any high-resolution, large-format ink-jet printer output with fade-resistant dye- or pigment-
based inks. It is common for these printers to use between six and twelve colour inks. The use of dye based inks requires special
coating to avoid fading.
Though originally intended for proofing, many artists and photographers use ink-jet printers as an alternative to lithography for
limited editions or reproductions.
If you want to follow the print conventions of conservators and museums, you name the process by which the print was made:
Lithograph (self explanatory) Etching (self explanatory) Woodblock print (self explanatory)
While all of these fall under the intaglio process, the word "intaglio" is not specific enough to identify the exact print process.
Likewise, in photography, there are numerous photographic print processes which is why you see:
Platinum print- Silver gelatin print -Chromogenic print -Dye destruction print
Following standard print process naming conventions - a print from an Epson 9600 would be:
Pigment inkjet print
A print from a Hewlett Packard DJ130 would be:
Dye inkjet print
This tells the buyer the exact ink material (pigment or dye) and the printing process (inkjet).
Make it simple, call a print exactly what it is: "pigment inkjet print" or "archival print."
There is another usage of the word giclee. It is often applied to denote a COPY of an original piece of art. That is the problem
with calling original art (pieces conceived to be inkjet prints) giclee.
The mass merchandising "art print" market has swamped galleries (of all kinds, including museum gift shops) with "giclee
prints," that are really copies of original works (mostly paintings).
This used to be the provence of the word "poster" and reproduced on an offset press. The digital reproduction of the piece
on an inkjet printer has, apparently, changed the copy into a form of art because the print is no longer "mass produced" by
photographing, screening, and the use of a printing press.
Today, high end devices like the Cruse Synchron Table Scanner, or Lumiere Technology Jumboscan are used by the Louvre,
National Gallery in London, etc. to make very high quality digital copies of the works owned by the museums.
The digital files are reproduced by inkjet and called "giclees." They're still copies, not original art - but, the term giclee gives
them a cachet that the cheap word "poster" does not have.
"Giclee" is (I think) a licensed marketing label that is mostly used by frame shop galleries to sell their own reproductions
(eg of paintings), rarely by photographers. Almost a franchise.
If you use the term and have not explored its implications, you're inadvertantly attaching yourself to something that is a
little deceptive.
I've been printing mainly digital the last few years, and I just call my digital prints "injket prints".
People like the term Giclee because it sounds upscale, and french.
Giclee and Archival Inkjet printing are one in the same.
ENCYCLOPEDIA DEFINITIONS:
---Digital printing- is a method of printing using digital techniques in which the data and images are printed directly from a
computer onto paper, including those developed for computer printers such as inkjet or laser printers.[1] The process differs
from lithography, flexography, gravure, and letterpress printing in several ways:
Every print can be different, because printing plates are not required, as in traditional methods.
There is less waste chemical and paper, because there is no need to bring the image "up to colour" and check for registration
and position. The ink or toner does not permeate the substrate, as does conventional ink, but forms a thin layer on the surface
and may in some systems be additionally adhered to the substrate by using a fuser fluid with heat process (toner) or UV curing
process (ink). Because there is less initial setup, it is useful for rapid prototyping, and cost effective for small print runs.
Digital Printing is used for personalized printing, or variable data printing (VDP or VI), for example personalized children's books,
which are customized with the specific child's name and images. Print on Demand (POD) systems also use digital printing, for
short run books of varying page quantities, and binding techniques.
Digital prints can also be done on photographic paper, exposed with RGB laser lights from computer files, and processed in
photographic developers and fixers. These prints are continuous tone images, and have the dyes imbedded in emulsion layers
within plastic coatings.
They can be very archival.
---An inkjet printer -is a type of computer printer that reproduces a digital image by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid
material (ink) onto a page. Inkjet printers are the most common type of printer[1] and range from small inexpensive consumer
models to very large and expensive professional machines.[2]
---Digital photography- is a form of photography that uses digital technology to make images of subjects. Until the advent of such
technology, photography used photographic film to create images made visible by photographic processing. By contrast, digital
photographs can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques,
without chemical processing.
Digital photography is one of several forms of digital imaging. Digital images are also created by non-photographic equipment
such as computer tomography scanners and radio telescopes. Digital images can also be made by scanning conventional
photographic images.
---Giclée-pronounced as "zhee-clay" ---is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet
printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler"
meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray".[1] It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne,[2] a printmaker working in the field, to represent
any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs"
from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art
prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print
and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.
---Intaglio- (pronounced /ɪnˈtæli.oʊ/ in-TAL-ee-oh) is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image
is incised into a surface, known as the matrix or plate. Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface, and the incisions
are created by etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint or mezzotint. Collographs may also be printed as intaglio plates. To print
an intaglio plate, ink is applied to the surface and then rubbed with tarlatan cloth to remove most of the excess. The final smooth
wipe is often done with newspaper or old public phone book pages, leaving ink only in the incisions. A damp piece of paper is
placed on top and the plate and paper are run through a printing press that, through pressure, transfers the ink from the recesses
of the plate to the paper.
---Lithography- is a method for printing using a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface.
Invented in 1796 by Bavarian author Alois Senefelder as a low-cost method of publishing theatrical works,[1][2] lithography can be
used to print text or artwork onto paper or another suitable material.
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