Gallery wrapped prints have the canvas wrapped around wood stretcher bars and are ready to hang. We offer several different stretcher bar depths to meet your needs. All gallery wrapped canvases are hand-sprayed with an archival UV coating of your choice and come with a wired back.
Rolled canvas prints are flat canvases that are not wrapped around stretcher bars. Ideal for shipping to clients who would rather save on postage costs and have canvases wrapped at their locale, or if you are going to mount the canvas to board or another substrate. Hand-sprayed with an archival UV coating of your choice.
Each of the matte smooth papers we offer has little to no texture, making them perfect for a wide range of imagery as they provide a blank canvas, as it were, to show off your artwork. Papers come in a variety of brightness and thickness to meet your needs. We suggest a heavier weight paper when making limited edition prints.
Ideal for watercolors, pastels, and charcoal imagery, our matte textured papers so perfectly mimic ‘real’ watercolor paper that it’s nearly impossible to tell that your print is a reproduction. We offer papers ranging from moderately to heavily textured to meet your needs.
These papers bring a slight sheen to your imagery and work very well with portraiture and landscape photography. They range from smooth, pearlized surfaces to moderately textured gloss surfaces that highlight saturated colors and high contrast black and white images. Our satin and pearl papers have the least reflective properties, while luster and baryta papers are glossier.
Our Baryta papers offer an amazing old school look and feel of a traditional silver print. Very reminiscent of early 20th and mid-century photographic papers, these Baryta papers are made with a special coating of barium sulfate that is used with photographs developed in a traditional darkroom. The textured, glossy surface adds loads of depth and offers some of the best color pop for your imagery.
Truly unique, these metallic papers add depth and brilliance to your imagery. The metallic pearl has a soft, smooth pearlized surface while the metallic silver will enhance any blue tones in your print. Metallic papers don’t work for all images, however, so you may want to talk to us prior to placing an order.
Gloss papers most closely resemble photographs that are printed in traditional darkrooms. The highly reflective, resin-coated surface allows your imagery to pop - especially high contrast and black and white photography. Best for times when you need your colors to be deeply saturated and sharp.
Fine art reproduction begins with understanding the original work, how the reproduction will be used, and which qualities must be preserved.
At Craft Giclée, each project moves through a controlled process of artwork review, professional capture or file preparation, proofing, and archival production. Decisions are made in response to the artwork rather than through a one-size-fits-all workflow.
Color relationships, tonal transitions, surface detail, texture, proportions, and presentation are considered throughout the process. This approach supports individual exhibition prints, limited editions, gallery releases, collector orders, and ongoing collections.
Every project begins with a review of the artwork and the intended result.
We consider whether the project begins with original artwork or an existing digital file, along with the desired print size, quantity, material selection, presentation requirements, and future production needs. A single exhibition print may require a different approach from a limited edition or a collection that will be reproduced over several years.
This initial review establishes the appropriate capture, file preparation, proofing, and production requirements.
If we identify concerns involving resolution, proportions, color settings, material selection, or other production requirements, we contact you before printing.
When reproduction begins with an original painting, drawing, photograph, or mixed-media work, the quality of the digital master file directly affects every future print.
Craft Giclée uses a 102-megapixel Fujifilm GFX100 II medium-format camera system with Broncolor professional lighting in a controlled studio environment. The capture setup is selected according to the artwork’s size, surface texture, reflective areas, and lighting requirements.
The process is designed to preserve:
Controlled lighting helps reduce glare, reveal surface characteristics, and maintain consistent color and density from edge to edge.
After capture, the image is processed through a color-managed workflow. Color correction, tonal refinement, contrast adjustments, and print preparation are completed as needed to create a high-resolution digital master file.
That master file becomes the foundation for fine art prints, limited editions, exhibition work, gallery reproduction, future production, and digital archiving.
Whether your artwork was professionally captured by Craft Giclée or you supplied your own digital file, every project follows the same preparation process before printing. This stage ensures that every file is technically sound, optimized for the selected media, and ready to produce the highest possible print quality.
Our team reviews each file for resolution, intended print size, image quality, color profile, and overall suitability for fine art reproduction. If we identify anything that could affect the final print, we’ll contact you before production to discuss the available options and recommend the best path forward.
Once approved, the file is prepared within our color-managed workflow and optimized for the selected paper or canvas. This production file becomes the foundation for proofing, printing, and future reorders, helping ensure consistent color, repeatable quality, and reliable results for years to come.
Every paper and canvas has unique characteristics that influence the final appearance of a print. Proofing provides an opportunity to evaluate color, contrast, detail, and overall presentation on the selected material before production.
A color-adjusted proof helps establish the desired appearance of the finished print and provides a reference standard for future orders.
Once the artwork file and proof have been approved, the project moves into final production.
Craft Giclée specializes in archival digital fine art printing using professional pigment-based printing technology, fine art papers, and artist-grade canvas.
We use Canon imagePROGRAF PRO printers with LUCIA PRO pigment-based inks. This system provides:
Paper and canvas are selected according to the artwork’s characteristics, surface appearance, color requirements, display conditions, and intended presentation.
Material selection is an important part of the reproduction process because the substrate directly affects the color, contrast, texture, and visual character of the finished print.
Printer, ink, and material specifications can be provided for limited edition certificates, production records, or collection documentation.
Many artists, galleries, museums, and organizations need to reproduce approved work over time while maintaining consistency between orders.
Craft Giclée supports:
Consistency requires more than retaining the original image file. It depends on an approved production file, documented adjustments, established materials, and controlled production standards.
By preserving the approved files and workflow, future prints can be produced to the same established standard as the original run. This provides a dependable foundation for editions, replacements, reorders, and collections produced over an extended period.
For artists and businesses selling directly to collectors, Craft Giclée offers white-label drop shipping and fulfillment support.
Orders can be professionally packaged and shipped directly to your client while maintaining your business identity. This allows you to focus on sales and customer relationships while we manage production and fulfillment.
Whether you are preparing a single exhibition print, establishing a limited edition, or managing an ongoing collection, the first step is determining the appropriate workflow for the artwork.
Visit Getting Started for information about submitting artwork, providing files, selecting materials, and beginning a project with Craft Giclée.
Before an order enters production, we review it for conditions that could affect the finished print.
These may involve file preparation, image resolution, color settings, artwork proportions, material selection, print size, or special production requirements.
When something requires attention, we contact you before printing to explain the concern and discuss available options.
Addressing these issues early helps prevent unnecessary delays, reprints, and unexpected results.
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