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Explain the Printing Process.
Who creates the prints?
Infinity Fine Art is proud to use Squirt
Printing for the printing of our fine art
Giclées. Squirt Printing's
production process is designed to yield the
highest quality fine art reproductions
possible. Our goal is to deliver the look,
feel and impact of the original art with
each print produced.
Acclaimed Capture System
Color Matching
Printing
Finishing
Acclaimed Capture System
Squirt Printing uses a BetterLight Super 6K
scanning back camera system. Highest quality
Schneider lenses are employed. A pair of
BetterLight copy lights handle lighting. At
the core of our capture system is HP Artist©
software.
HP Artist© is a specialized software tool
that Squirt Printing has worked closely with
the HP Lab team to perfect. The talent and
knowledge of Squirt Printing coupled with HP
Artist© consistently produces the best
captures our customers have ever seen.
The HP Artist© software lets us concentrate
on making the art look good, not just making
the capture system work. Cutting edge
algorithms deal with lighting fall-off so we
light the art in ways that bring out the art
not just keep the lighting even. Cross
polarization keeps specular highlights from
becoming an issue. When you look at one of
our captures you will see the clarity and
detail in each file. You'll never consider
another capture system again.
Color Matching
The Squirt Printing color matching team has
an average of 17 years experience in the
field. Matching color involves a high level
of knowledge and skill. It starts with the
capture process.
Care is taken to capture all aspects of the
artwork as described in detail in the
Capture Process. Once achieved, Photoshop is
used to complete the proof. More often than
not, Squirt Printing is able to provide a
successful proof within a reasonable
turnaround time.
We want you to leave your first color
matching experience with the Squirt Printing
team satisfied.
Printing
Thousands of engineering hours have gone
into the Squirt Printing fine art printing
system. Our goal was to create an accurate,
repeatable system that was tailored to the
colors an artist needed. We feel that our
goals were exceeded!
We use only the highest quality pigment inks
and substrates from trusted names like HP
and Hahnemuhle. Quality giclées start with a
quality capture and they finish with quality
printing. At the core of our system are
several highly tuned HP 5500 designjet
printers. Each of our 5500's has the
capability to print 60 inches wide. This
satisfies even the largest printing needs.
Squirt Printing has recently begun working
with the latest line of designjet printers -
the z-2100 and z-3100. We have been very
impressed with the color range and
repeatability of these new printers. Our
customers have been pleased also.
Extensive testing has been completed with
HP's media/ink team and Wilhelm Research to
ensure our prints will not fade. The ink and
media combinations we use all test to
greater than 200 years color fastness by
Wilhelm Research.
We take it very seriously that our giclées
are being sold as fine art. There is nothing
"fine" about cracking, peeling or fading.
That is why we have completed the testing
for you.
Finishing
All of our canvas products are finished with
the highest quality fluid laminate,
ClearStar. ClearStar type "C" gloss comes
standard on all canvas prints whether they
are stretched or sheeted. We have completed
extensive testing with HP's media team,
ClearStar and Wilhelm Research to guaranty
fading, peeling and cracking do not occur.
The Squirt Printing team feels it is
critical you have confidence in your
products and sell them with pride.
Stretching
We take pride in our stretching so you can
take pride in your giclées. Quality
stretcher bar is cut and joined in our
Gatlinburg Warehouse. No part of our
process is outsourced to Mexico or China.
When you purchase from Infinity Fine Art,
you are buying a quality product that was
proudly made in America! We use all kiln dried hardwoods
for our stretched bar construction. Using a
quality stretcher bar helps make your
product last longer and keep a quality
appearance.
Our standard stretcher bar is 3/4" thick
by 2" wide. We
take utmost care in ensuring spot on
registration when canvas is stretched. The
edges of our bars have a rounded finish to
ensure no cracking occurs when the canvas is
stretched.
Embellishing
All of our fine
art canvas editions are hand embellished by
an artist's apprentice with years of
experience in fine art. We start by
adding gel coat to mimic the brush strokes
and texture of the original. Next,
colored paints are used to highlight certain
select areas of the image. Finally
another top coat of the highest quality
fluid laminate is applied to provide a UV
protectant that insures further against any
fading. Our high quality fluid
laminate is extremely resistant to chipping,
scratching, cracking, peeling or fading. Artist's Proofs
are embellished by the artist at his studio.
Shipping
Your fine art
giclées are professionally packaged and
shipped to you with an unconditional
satisfaction guarantee. See our
Policies section for complete details.
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