Iris Giclee - (zee-clay) French for "to spray on," an Iris Giclee is a gallery fine art print. Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is like a serigraph. In producing a Giclee - a fine stream of high quality ink - more than four million droplets per second - is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. The effect is similar to an airbrush technique, although much finer.       Each piece is carefully hand mounted onto a drum which rotates during printing. Exact calculations of hue, value and density direct the ink. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink. The result of this technology is an extensive palette of over 3 million colors. The artist's color approval and input are essential for creating the final custom setting for the edition. Once the calibrations are set each Giclee is meticulously printed, taking up to an hour per piece.       The final editions of fine art prints are a collaboration between the artist and a specially trained printing craftsman. Every Iris Giclee print offered is printed with archival inks on 0.27mm Epson Premium paper with an archival duration of 140 years (calculated by accelerated test conditions).       Displaying a full color spectrum, Giclee prints capture every nuance of an original painting - be it watercolor, oil or acrylic and have gained wide acceptance from artists like David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg to major institutions like the Chicago Art Institute and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.     Offset Lithography Poster - This type of print is standard in most retail stores and frame shops and is printed on an offset press. Film negative (screens) of the four process inks - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK) are transferred onto metal printer's plates. The four color ink selections are then "offset" from the plates to the paper.       Beautiful in their own right and elegant when framed, this type of print is most often unlimited in production. These types of poster prints are "affordable art" because of their larger production quantities (open editions) and lower cost processing.       All unlimited edition posters are printed on high quality Centura StoraEnso 100# text paper with a "silk" finish. This premium paper is acid-free and archival quality.