Picture Salon

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Picture Salon produces custom, high quality pigment ink prints (also known as giclee prints) for artists, photographers and fine art museums nationwide.

We provide an affordable and convenient way to produce fine art giclee prints of your work no matter where you live.

Our low prices, our high level of expertise and our great personal service is what sets us apart from the rest.

We hope you will give us a try.

Bamboo and Sugar Cane Papers are now available.
We can now print up to 60" x 120" wide on any media!

Picture Salon Giclee Price Sampler
16" x 20" giclee print on 100% cotton Somerset Velvet paper - $35.70

24" x 36" gallery wrapped Fine Art Canvas giclee print - $135.06

No Setup Fee. No Minimum Required. Volume Discounts Available!
We can scan your original art or transparency.
See our entire giclee price list. . . Why Choose Picture Salon?

The giclee prints arrived this morning. They are fabulous! Thanks so much. I hope to be in touch again! p.s. The turnaround time was amazingly fast!
Kathie - Waterford, VA
You guys do a terrific job! I am so glad that I found your company! Thank you so much for all of your help.
Barbara - West Grove, PA
The digital pigment prints just arrived and I think they look great! thanks again for the super fast service, YOU make ME look good!
Gigi - Gwynedd Valley, PA
Thanks for the quick response Kim! ... You all do fantastic work, by the way. The print quality and paper was just beautiful; these posters have been *extremely* popular!
John - Sugar Land, TX
Wow, thanks so much, that was very fast! My client will be thrilled.
Sandi - Arlington, VA
Just wanted to say, thank you. I received thegiclee prints, and they look great, especially the print on canvas. Thank you for working with me in the time frame I needed.
Gail - Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Thanks for the quick turnaround on my giclee prints!
Tim - LaCrosse, WI

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Picture Salon Helpful Hints & Information:
How do I convert my artwork into an electronic format suitable for printing?
How To Copy Your Artwork
How large can I make a print from a digital camera?
Digital Resolution and Enlargements Chart
What are the standard frames sizes available at most art supply stores?
A List of Standard Vs. Non-Standard Frames
How can I tell how large my image file is ( inches vs. pixels)?
How To Determine an Image Size
What is the difference detween a JPG and a TIF file?
TIF vs. JPEG - Pros and Cons

Giclee (pronounced "jhee-clay")
A giclee print is actually a digital inkjet print that can be produced on canvas or paper.
The inkjet printer literally blends the colored inks as it prints to produce seamless, highly detailed prints of stunning color and detail.
Our giclee prints are made using pigmented inks which are much more stable and fade resistant than dye inks. A giclee using pigmented inks should not fade for a minimum of eighty years!
More information on giclees.

Giclee Described in Detail
The term "giclee" is derived from the French noun "gicleur" meaning "jet, stream of liquid or gas forced out of an opening". More loosely translated, it means "to spray". The term was created by an early proponent of digital pigmented ink printing who wanted to elevate the awareness of the superior nature of this new printing process over traditional offset printing -- that a giclee was a print that was "sophisticated" or special.
This new ability to sell reproductions of original art and photographs on different substrates has made giclees a very popular means for artists to leverage the time it took to create their original work and to offer it for sale at a more reasonable cost than the original -- thus generating more revenue and expanding their customer base.
Print On Demand
Giclee prints have become the print method of choice for artists, photographers, art publishers and fine art museums who are looking for high quality reproductions. Not only is the quality of giclees superior to offset prints, but the upfront commitment of capital is far less.
Also, once a giclee is proofed and finalized for printing it can be reliably reproduced over and over again without and degradation because it uses a digital output method -- not a physical printing plate. This is a superior method for an artist because it means that they do not need to make thousands of prints of one artwork in order to achieve "economy of scale" because printing a giclee is relatively inexpensive when compared to the offset method. This ability to print a giclee -- even just one -- is referred to as being able to "print on demand". The giclee printer keeps a copy of the digital file in storage until another print is made.

Giclees were originally made using Iris printers that used archival dye inks. The paper was loaded on a rotating drum and took extremely long to print. Then, Epson came along with a new, more improved printer and introduced a line of pigmented inks that were far superior in terms of their color-fastness when compared to dyes inks.

Pigmented inks are very stable. Some of the more current inks are rated to last up to two hundred years without fading according to testing lab Wilhelm Research. Even though dye inks have a larger color "gamut" or range, pigmented inks are overall superior for their stability.
The papers and canvas types that are used to make giclee prints are all specially coated to make the substrate's surface more receptive to pigmented inks.
The advantages of giclee prints are:

Color permanence rated to last at least one hundred years

A wide choice of 100% cotton papers and canvases

Giclee prints offer the ability to reproduce artwork on a variety of specially treated substrates including canvas, fine art papers and photo papers. They also make reproducing artwork more cost effective than offset printing -- especially when produced in limited runs.
The term may sound foreign, but it is a pretty good deal all the way around!