The museum quality giclees are 13x19 inches with a border of about 1 1/2 inches. They vary in price from $75 to $125 with the four Book of Kells prints offered for $450 for all four. There is a flat shipping charge of $20 with a handling fee of $5. Each additional print added to the order incurs an additional $5.

About Giclee

Over the last ten years or so, the art of limited edition fine art printing has been revolutionized by the Giclee (zhee-clay) printing process.

Roughly speaking, the Giclee process is a term borrowed from French which means "squirt". In the Giclee Printing process a fine stream of ink is sprayed at a rate of more than four million droplets per second onto specially prepared archival Giclee quality paper, canvas, silk, or other media.

The power of modern computers is harnessed to drive and control each combination, of colour, shade, hue, value and density of the ink via four or eight nozzles.

This can produce a combination of up to 1024 basic chromatic changes, which allows a possible four million colours combinations of highly saturated, non-toxic, water based ink. Since no half-tone screens are used in Giclee printing, the prints have a higher resolution than lithographs. The intense saturation of the Giclee printing system renders a dynamic colour range which is greater than serigraphy.

The apparent resolution of the digital print is 1800 dots per square inch, which is higher than a traditional lithographic print and has a wider color gamut than serigraphy. Giclee prints render deep, saturated colors and have a beautiful painterly quality that retains minute detail, subtle tints and blends.

Ten years ago Giclees had a hard time being accepted by the general art buying public as "legitimate" art. Today, Giclee Prints have gained wide acceptance and "legitimacy", and are now shown in museums and galleries throughout the world.

The Giclee printing process is environmentally safe since the inks are water-based and the paper is archival and acid-free. Thus, a Giclee must be treated as fine art and placed away from direct sunlight, even though we use extra long-life Archival UV-Safe Pigmented Inks.