John Noble Prints are now done using the Giclée printing process.
John Noble Prints

Giclée Prints

The art of fine art printing has become even more precise with the advent of the revolutionary Giclée (ghee-clay) printing process. A Giclée print is as rewarding visually as it is technically amazing. For brilliant, exquisite color and razor sharp details it is unsurpassed. This type of art production is quickly becoming the new standard in the art industry, and is widely embraced for its quality by major museums, galleries, publishers and artists.

The word Giclée itself is French, and means spurt or squirt, in this case meaning "spray of ink". In the Giclée process, a fine stream of ink - more than four million droplets per second - is sprayed onto archival art paper or canvas. The effect is similar to an airbrush technique but 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 of four nozzles. This produces a combination of 512 chromatic changes, (with over 3 million colors possible) of highly saturated, nontoxic water-based ink. Once completed an image is comprised of almost 20 billion droplets of ink. The latest Giclée Printing Technology enhanced the standard 4-color process to an 8-color process.

The resulting print has no perceptible dot pattern, an endless array of richly saturated color, and every nuance of original art. The most archival, water based light-fast inks available in the world are used. The latest inks offer a 70 year light fastness and UV resistance under museum archival condition.

Because no screens are used, the prints have a higher apparent resolution than lithographs. The dynamic color range is like a serigraph. The artist's color approval and input are essential for creating the final custom setting for the edition.

Displaying a full color spectrum, Giclée 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.

Fine Art Galleries across the country are warmly receiving Giclées.
Giclée prints have an impressive exhibition record.

They have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the world.
A few examples are:
Chicago Art Institute
The Metropolitan Museum (New York)
Los Angeles Museum of Contempory Art
The Los Angeles County Museum
Zimmerli Museum of Art - Rutgers University
The British Museum
National Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The New York Public Library
San Francisco Museum of Art
The Corcoran Gallery
Laguna Museum of Art
The Washington Post Collection

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