Museum-quality giclée prints for artists, illustrators and photographers — printed in Bristol at 1200 dpi with a 12-colour LUCIA pigment ink system, on the world's finest archival papers. Prints from £4.50.
As any artist who sells their own original work knows, once the piece is gone, that's it. But imagine if you could reproduce your most important work on demand, often on the very same paper the original was painted on, and sell it as a high quality art print at a fraction of the cost and risk of a full print run.
That is what fine art giclée printing offers. An open or limited edition of reproductions made from your original artwork — each one as close to the original as modern printing can get — printed only when you need them.
Traditional offset litho and screen printing have their place, but for artists working in small runs and wanting museum-quality reproduction of original work, giclée is now the method of choice.
Your digital file is archived with us. Order a single print or a hundred — whenever you need them. No minimum runs, no warehousing unsold stock, no upfront outlay on an edition you haven't sold.
Made on 100% cotton and cellulose art papers with 12-colour pigment inks that carry a lightfastness of 100 years or more. These are prints built to outlast the walls they hang on.
Colour-managed ICC profiles link scanner, screen and printer so what you see is what prints. The finished result is as close to your original as modern printing will allow.
The term "giclée" was coined in the 1990s by printmaker Jack Duganne from the French for "spray". Since then the Fine Art Trade Guild has set clear minimum standards that separate a fine art giclée from an everyday inkjet print.
Scoring 6 or better on the Blue Wool Scale means your print will resist fading under normal gallery lighting for decades.
Papers and coatings sit in the neutral-to-alkaline range — so the sheet itself will not yellow, brown, or degrade the image over time.
A 12-colour LUCIA pigment ink set — including photo grey, photo cyan and photo magenta — delivers the subtlest tonal transitions and truest neutral greys.
Before a single drop of ink hits the paper, we need a digital file that captures every colour and every detail of your original. For smaller works up to A3 we use a high-end flatbed scanner. For larger pieces we photograph the work with a studio camera under controlled lighting.
Good colour management — ICC profiles linking the scanner, the studio screen, and the printer — ensures the finished print matches the original for both colour and density. Once we have that master file, it's archived with us. You can call off single prints or multiple copies any time, on any paper we stock, at any size.
Scanning & Copying Service
The quality of the scan is the single most important factor in the whole process. If you're not sure whether your file is up to printing at a particular size, or what it will look like on your chosen paper, we can help in one of two ways.
Order a proof print and you'll see exactly how the finished piece will look — on the exact paper, at a small and affordable size. Prefer not to commit to a proof? Send us your file for a free file check instead and we'll give you our honest assessment of whether it's fit for the size and media you have in mind.
Proof Prints & Free File Check
Giclée print prices start from just £4.50 for a small print and £6.37 for A4. All prices include VAT and a free 25mm border, with quantity discounts of up to 35% applied automatically and free UK delivery on orders over £75.
We print at virtually any size, from small 6×4 inch prints up to large-format work over a metre wide. Every print includes a free 25mm border around the image. A selection of our most popular sizes is shown below.
| Size | Inches | Millimetres | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 × 4 | 6 × 4 in | 102 × 152 mm | £4.50 |
| 8 × 10 | 8 × 10 in | 203 × 254 mm | £5.30 |
| A4 | 8.3 × 11.7 in | 210 × 297 mm | £6.37 |
| 11 × 14 | 11 × 14 in | 279 × 356 mm | £9.71 |
| A3 | 11.7 × 16.5 in | 297 × 420 mm | £12.08 |
| 16 × 20 | 16 × 20 in | 406 × 508 mm | £19.02 |
| A2 | 16.5 × 23.4 in | 420 × 594 mm | £22.89 |
| A1 | 23.4 × 33.1 in | 594 × 841 mm | £43.44 |
| A0 | 33.1 × 46.8 in | 841 × 1189 mm | £82.39 |
Prices shown are the lowest paper group, include VAT, and exclude quantity discounts. See the full price list & calculator →
For the very best results, follow these guidelines when preparing your artwork for giclée printing. Not sure if your file is up to scratch? We offer a free image file check.
Supply your file at 300 dpi at the final print size. Higher resolution gives sharper detail — and our skilled technicians can advise on the maximum size your file will print well at.
TIFF, PSD or a maximum-quality JPEG are all ideal. TIFF and PSD preserve the most detail; if sending a JPEG, save it at the highest quality setting with minimal compression.
Adobe RGB (1998) or sRGB both work well. Our colour-managed ICC workflow links scanner, screen and printer so your colours reproduce faithfully on your chosen paper.
Send us your file for a free image file check and we'll give you our honest assessment of whether it's fit for the size and media you have in mind — or order a proof print to see it in the flesh.
Giclée printing is a method of producing high-quality fine art prints using a wide-format inkjet printer that sprays archival pigment inks onto cotton or cellulose art paper. The term was coined in the 1990s from the French for "spray".
A true fine art giclée meets the Fine Art Trade Guild's minimum standards — scoring 6 or better on the Blue Wool Scale and lasting 100 years or more without fading — which is what separates it from an everyday inkjet print.
Fine art giclée printing is the reproduction of original artwork or photography to museum standard. We print at 1200 dpi using a 12-colour LUCIA pigment ink set on 100% cotton and cellulose archival papers from mills including Hahnemühle, Canson Infinity and St Cuthberts.
Colour-managed ICC profiles link our scanner, studio screen and printer, so the finished print matches your original for both colour and density.
Giclée print prices start from £4.50 for a small 6×4 inch print and £6.37 for A4. A3 prints start from £12.08 and A2 from £22.89. All prices include VAT and a free 25mm border.
Quantity discounts of 10% to 35% are applied automatically, and UK delivery is free on orders over £75. You can see the full price list and use our calculator here.
A giclée print made with archival pigment inks on acid-free cotton or cellulose paper will last 100 years or more without noticeable fading under normal gallery lighting.
The pigment inks score 6 or better on the Blue Wool Scale, and the papers sit in the neutral-to-alkaline pH 7–9 range, so the sheet itself will not yellow, brown or degrade over time.
For the best results, supply a high-resolution file at 300 dpi at the final print size, saved as a TIFF, PSD or maximum-quality JPEG in the Adobe RGB or sRGB colour space.
If you're unsure whether your file is suitable, we offer a free image file check, or you can order an affordable proof print on your chosen paper. If you only have the original artwork, we can scan or photograph it for you.
Yes. We offer a professional scanning and copying service. Works up to A3 are captured on a high-end flatbed scanner; larger pieces are photographed with a studio camera under controlled lighting.
The resulting master file is colour-managed and archived with us, so you can order single prints or multiple copies at any size, on any paper we stock, whenever you need them.
We stock a curated range of archival fine art papers from the world's leading mills — Hahnemühle (Germany), Canson Infinity (France), St Cuthberts Mill (Somerset) and Awagami washi (Japan).
Surfaces range from 100% cotton rag and watercolour textures to smooth photo papers, metallic and baryta finishes, fine art canvas and sustainable natural-fibre papers. Order a printed sample pack to see and feel the full range.
Yes. Once your artwork is digitised and archived with us, you can order a single print or a hundred with no minimum runs and no warehousing of unsold stock.
We also offer a drop shipping and fulfilment service, printing and posting prints directly to your own customers on your behalf.
The best way to understand fine art giclée is to hold a print in your hands. Order our sample pack and see the full range of archival papers we print on — plus a calibration print so you can judge our colour work for yourself.