Each of these processes offer a high ‘art’ quality finish, but there are particular features of the processes which mean that it is possible to choose a method of printing which best suits your needs and budget.

Giclée Printing
This process uses the very latest in digital printing technology to produce a pin-sharp reproduction directly from the original You See Red image file (without the intervening scanning and films). The printer uses 6-colour inks to give deep, rich colour reproduction which can be repeated exactly for each print in the edition, and prints onto a wide variety of materials including canvas and specialty papers. The finished print has the sharpness and colour depth of a silk screen print, and is guaranteed light fast for 100 years!

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Silk Screen Printing
In this process, the prints are produced by forcing individual inks through a very file mesh screen (silk in days gone by - hence the name). Masks are made on the surface of the screen to only allow the ink onto the particular areas of the image. Unlike the other processes, the colours used in silk screen printing are ‘pure’ and so the finished print is very vibrant.

This method is produces the highest quality of print we offer and is still much more of a ‘hand’ process, and so Silk Screen versions of particular prints will be more expensive, and usually of a limited edition of nor more than 250 prints.

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4- Colour Litho Printing
This is the most common method for mass producing colour images and uses what is effectively a visual illusion. The original design work is scanned and converted into a pattern of extremely fine dots printed in black, magenta, cyan and yellow which through variations of size and density create the appearance of the original colours. The vast majority of printed colour images are produced using this process (try looking at a picture in a magazine through a magnifying glass)

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