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ALL GICLEE PRINTING IS DONE BY STAN personally
on a new state of the art CANON iPF 9100 60" wide format printer that can offer the highest quality available at affordable prices.

Canon iPF 9100 60" 12 ink line printer with a
52"x76" print for Ithaca artist Lynne Taetzsch

Stan is a professional artist with over 40 years active involvement in art , photography, printmaking, painting, and digital imaging. His work has been widely exhibited in the US and Europe. For over 6 years he has been making Giclee prints on his superb Colorspan printer for numerous clients and artists both locally and in many regions of the US.

PRINTS FOR ARTIST'S

STAN MAKES MANY PRINTS FOR ARTISTS but there are two alternatives.
1. PRINTS IN VOLUME. On one hand an artist can order a number of prints in anticipation of having an art show or similar event, or just to create an inventory for sales. By ordering multiples of a single image better pricing is available. Stan also keeps a client's image on file for additional future prints.
2. PRINTS ON DEMAND. A smarter way for an artist may be to order Giclee prints on demand. Many artists hold back from making Giclee's of their work because they are put off by what they see as high initial costs. But an artist can avoid this by waiting to order prints until they have a purchaser who places an order. Then the artist first makes some sample prints to show prospective buyers at different sales venue's. If a sale is made then the order is placed with Stan.

PRINTS FOR OTHERS

Stan does a lot of printing for many clients who are not artists in the professional sense but who just love making pictures and seeing these in large vibrant prints. Stan enjoys providing wonderful prints that please his clients and takes delight in working with them.

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT STAN AS AN ARTIST?

Image quality are most important

BUT FIRST, WHAT ARE GICLEE PRINTS ANYWAY? Simply put, these are considered to be superior high quality ink jet prints usually made on a high end wide format printer by a skilled master printer in a professional print shop operation. Giclee prints in quality often rival the original art work and some feel they surpass it.

What are
PERFECT ART PRINTS?

They are "archival"giclee prints where the quality of the image is the most important consideration. They are giclee prints that are a step above all others because of the time and care taken in the printing. They are prints where a client will say "Wow, that's amazing".

Some people find it convenient to just go to someone locally because they are close by or offer attractive prices. Sometimes they get good prints. But most times they never search out if there are alternatives that will get them even better prints. Stan believes he can produce prints for you that are superior in appearance because he is an artist and has outstanding skills, equipment, inks and media.

PEOPLE HAVE THREE CONCERNS when seeking Giclee prints. They usually want:

SUPERB GICLEE PRINTS. A superb print has a wider range of colors (gamut), greater color vibrancy, and crispness of detail. Read about WHAT MAKES A SUPURB PRINT.
GOOD PRICES. A good print price is one that is low enough to be affordable but high enough to indicate the use of high quality materials on excellent printers. Read about GICLEE PRINTING COSTS.
LONG LASTING PRINTS. Giclee prints these days will last a long time because the inks and papers have been engineered to last longer. But how long is a more complicated question. Read about LONG LASTING GICLEE PRINTS.

Stan offers ALL THREE, but his focus is primarily on creating prints for clients that are SUPERIOR IN APPEARANCE, prints that his clients will truly appreciate, at AFFORDABLE PRICES. Overall his costs are competitively lower than most other giclee print shops while at the same times HE OFFERS SUPERIOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICE.

But perhaps you are still unsure and need to see an actual print to be convinced.
Well then......

Canvas print for Lynne Taetzsch, Ithaca NY abstract painter.

Lynne's comment:
"I’am thrilled with the high quality of the prints on canvas you make for me. My clients think they are original paintings, and cannot tell the difference until they actually touch the canvas. The detail, crispness, and color reproduction are amazing. Your reliability and professionalism also make it a pleasure to work with you.

Big 36"x 8-10 foot canvas stretched photo prints for Janice Levy show at H.F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, NY.

"Woven" watercolor print of sailboats by Ithaca artist Nancy Maas.

SOME THOUGHTS ON ARCHIVAL PRINTS, by Stan

For many years a controversy has raged about the archival nature of ink jet prints, and the race has been on to engineer inks and media that can be used to make prints that will not fade "by the end of the day". But over the last 5-10 years great advances have been made in new inks and media for ink jet printing, as well as a never ending flow of better engineered small and large format printers from companies like Epson, HP, Roland, Colorspan, and now Canon. In fact it would appear that three of these, Epson, HP and Canon are now vying for top honors as the maker of the best archival fine art printer with Canon and HP leading the way with their groundbreaking new 12 color line printers.

However the fear lingers on that what is printed today may just disappear, not tomorrow but in the not too distant future. But recently Canon, HP and Epson have promoted their current printers as capable of making prints with at least 100 year display life, and all these claims seem to be supported by independent research from Wilhelm Imaging Research. My opinion is that we need to drop this fear of prints fading. The quality pigment inks and carefully engineered paper and canvas media we have today are better than ever and research is continuing at an ever increasing rate. Perhaps the real issue is the long term preservation of the digital images used to make the prints of today or tomorrow, not the prints themselves. Perhaps we need to be thinking about inventing new ways to store digital images so that in the future we can take the images of today and easily print them again on the improved materials and equipment of tomorrow. After all, the image is the art, not the print.