Our Technology

To produce Giclée Reproductions we start with a digital scan of your original artwork. Our Creoscitex scanner produces excellent digital scans from originals up to 12"x18" and also from film positives.

In producing Giclée prints we use a state of the art high-resolution printer, the HP 5000PS. We offer a selection of canvases and papers that are designed for our printer and also rated with high archival standards. We invite you to visit us to see printed samples of our media.

We are Macintosh based and use a very sophisticated and highly regarded color management system. We can accept Mac and PC formatted disks with files saved as .tiff or .psd (PhotoShop) with an RGB color gamut.

Collaborative editing between the artist and the image specialist insures a close color match between the original and the Giclée print. Although an exact match is seldom, if ever achieved, ninety-five percent color accuracy is considered excellent in Giclée printing. Every original work of art is unique in its color requirements; editing time will vary to achieve the final results.

Preparing you Digital File
You must have a digital file of your original to print a Giclée. We can scan your transparencies (film positives) to make high-resolution digital files. Your transparencies can be 35mm slides 2.25, 4x5 or larger.

You can have a professional digital photographer (digital capture) taken to create you digital file. We recommend Thomas Burke and Others in Santa Cruz, California. They provide us with excellent files created with the same color management system that we use here at Real Color. Your files should be RGB color mode at 150 dpi at the largest desired print size

Thomas Burke & Others
303 Potrero St. #25
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831.426.9002

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