One off preproduction prints
 Celebrate Something: U. Newkirk 2nd Commissioned by Micheal Woo for 2008 Dally in the Alley original: acrylic on canvas Serigraph prints on archival paper and screen printed t-shirts by  The final poster print  The t-shirts live in action | Creating fine art quality prints, whether for wall or wearable art can be an expensive and challenging process, especially when working with different printers using different machines, techniques and standards. Combining a number of crafts and artistic styles to produce the final product for our images markets is what makes our collaborations most enjoyable The collection of works on this page are the works that we take to printers for matching designs to the equipment being used to reproduce art in volume. There are two types of prints (we use the term maquette, meaning scale model or sketch) that we use for proofing production prints. The first is Giclee the second is Serigraph. Giclee is a French term for fine art ink jet print. We bring in to the studio professional technicians to carefully calibrate and match our ink jet printers which produces maximum image sizes of 13inches by 44inches to our monitors that display images up to 11 x 17inches. The Ciclee maquettes are the last step on our side of the printing process, the next set of proofs come from the printer using their paper, machines and inks. Serigraphs are fine art silk screen prints, they differ somewhat from industrial screen prints in the fact that they are produced on manual presses in small volumes. Works of industrial presses have to be re-calibrated for tighter tolerances to match the various machines and ink types each printer uses. According to the method of production printing our digital files are then processed for color separation, each color of ink made into a film positive. We also employ the same kinds of printer to produce film positives for screen printing stencils. Tested (called 1st rips) adjusted for color balance and registration accuracy. The final proofs are made on high quality archival paper and a sample of the final product. |
