| Q: What are there significant quality differences | | | | from an authorized dealer, the prints are |
| between these types of prints? | | | | considered to be on the Secondary Market. This |
| A: In terms of resolution, a giclee print has the | | | | means that the print can be bought and sold by |
| highest resolution and color range. | | | | any dealer or individual, often above issue price, |
| Giclee printmaking offers one of the highest | | | | depending on supply and demand. |
| degrees of accuracy and richness of color | | | | Q: What is meant by the term 'Archival' and |
| available in any reproductions technique. Giclee | | | | 'acid-free'? |
| printmaking provides a luminosity and brilliance that | | | | A: Paper or canvas treated to neutralize its |
| represents the artist's original work better than | | | | natural acidity in order to protect fine art and |
| any reproduction technique available today. | | | | photographic prints from discoloration and |
| A Serigraph is created when paint is 'pushed' | | | | deterioration. |
| through a silkscreen onto paper or canvas. A | | | | Q: Why does it take longer to get my Limited |
| different screen is used for each color in the print, | | | | Edition print than it does to get a poster? |
| and this results in a print with great color density | | | | A: Each limited edition is ordered from the |
| and many qualities of the original piece in terms of | | | | publisher upon immediate demand. Therefore, we |
| color saturation. This process also adds some | | | | must take shipping time into account. In the event |
| texture to the final product. | | | | that you choose to have your limited edition print |
| A Lithograph is the least manually intensive | | | | frame then you must also allow time to custom |
| reproduction technique, and in turn, is not as | | | | frame your print to your exact specifications. |
| expensive as a serigraph or giclee. Although | | | | Q: What is an Artist's Proof, or what does A/P |
| images can have a high resolution, and excellent | | | | mean? |
| appearance, they will not have the same degree | | | | A: A small group of prints set aside from an |
| of color fastness, resolution or color density as a | | | | edition for an artist's or printer's use. Typically |
| serigraph or giclee. | | | | some of the first prints pulled from a limited |
| Q: Why do Giclee prints have serial numbers? | | | | edition of prints, they are marked as an A.P. and |
| A: The serial number is used to indicate that a | | | | [sometimes] left unnumbered. Artist's proofs |
| limited edition has been signed and numbered by | | | | generally draw a higher price than other |
| the artist himself/herself. | | | | impressions. |
| Q: Will the value of a limited edition increase like | | | | Q: Why are Limited Edition prints so much more |
| other collector's items? | | | | expensive? |
| A: Being limited in number, demand for certain | | | | A: The premium price of limited editions is a |
| limited edition prints can be greater than the | | | | function of the limited supply of each product, and |
| number of reproductions produced for the edition. | | | | the exceptionally high quality of these prints. |
| Once an edition is sold out from the publisher, | | | | Typically, the more manually intensive the process |
| which means that the print is no longer available | | | | is, the more each limited edition print will cost. |
| from the publisher, but they may still be available | | | | Q: What is a Limited Edition? |