Giclée prints
All my illustrations are printed for me by The Printspace, a London-based company who produce high-quality work in both C-Type and Giclée colour on a variety of archival quality papers. Archival means a life of at least 80-100 years. The print costs for this service are not cheap and account for a high proportion of the prices for the illustrations.
Giclée is a form of inkjet printing, one which uses far more ink colours than conventional inkjets, and at a very high resolution - hence the superb quality of the prints. Prints created by the giclée process use a minimum resolution of 300 dots per inch (DPI), as opposed to the usual screen resolution of 72dpi.
As for paper, I use Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper - a very heavy, fine quality paper - for most of the prints. Some prints are done on other Hahnemuhle papers which have weights and textures appropriate to the illustration.
Giclée is a form of inkjet printing, one which uses far more ink colours than conventional inkjets, and at a very high resolution - hence the superb quality of the prints. Prints created by the giclée process use a minimum resolution of 300 dots per inch (DPI), as opposed to the usual screen resolution of 72dpi.
As for paper, I use Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper - a very heavy, fine quality paper - for most of the prints. Some prints are done on other Hahnemuhle papers which have weights and textures appropriate to the illustration.