The difference between canvas, watercolour and enhanced matte prints
Premium Canvas Prints
- Offered as Limited Edition Artist hand-signed prints
- 100% cotton museum quality canvas
- UV scratch resistant coating applied to canvas
- Canvas prints look closer to an oil painting
- Produces vibrant oil like colours and looks closest to an original oil painting because of the subtle canvas texture
- Framing with canvas prints
- No glass required hence less expensive
- Gallery stretch - canvas can be printed with a 1.5 inch black or colour border of your choice to facilitate a "frameless" gallery stretch option, please contact@artofpunjab.com to request this prior to placing your order.
Lasts up to 200 years (lab tested) without fading
Textured Water Colour Prints
- 8 colour fine art ink system
- Inks are archival quality meaning they will not fade like ordinary printer inks
- Paper used is handmade, gentle texture and thick like cardboard
- Produces richer colours and looks closer to an original because it can absorb higher volumes of ink than enhanced matte paper
- Museum quality paper
- Lasts up to 120 years (lab tested) without fading
Enhanced Matte Paper Prints
- 8 colour fine art ink system
- Inks are archival quality meaning they will not fade like ordinary printer inks
- Matte Paper is acid free
- Lasts up to 80 years (lab tested) without fading
What is Giclee?
Giclee prints are widely regarded as the highest quality reproduction currently available., There is no minimum quantity, proofing is done "on-press" so you get perfect colour matching – whatever the proof looks like – the prints will match spot-on.
- Very high-quality reproduction
- Superb colour matching
- Look and feel of original artwork
- Perfectly reproduces subtle tones and graduations
The term "giclee print" connotes an elevation in printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction.
