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Luke's Lab in Kansas City provides fine art printing for photographers, both amateur and professional. In today's digital environment, fine art printing is an interesting process. Sometimes referred to as a Giclee, fine art prints are high-quality, from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word giclee is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle," meaning to squirt, spurt, or spray. While fine art printing historically involved a printing press, giclee was coined in 1991 by a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial Iris proofs from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art printing created on Iris printers, but now fine art printing has come to mean any high quality ink-jet printing and is often used in galleries and fine art print shops.
The word giclee, as a fine art term, has come to be associated with printing using fade-resistant archival inks and the inkjet printers that use them. Fine art printing uses the CMYK color process but often has multiple cartridges for variations of each color based on the CcMmYK color model (e.g. light magenta and light cyan inks in addition to regular magenta and cyan). In this manner, fine art printing can produce truly luminous art prints. This method, along with high-quality paper substrates, is the difference between desktop-style printing and fine art printing.
For Fine Art Printing in Kansas City
Luke's Lab serves primarily Kansas City, including Kansas City, KS; Kansas City, MO; Overland Park, KS; Shawnee Mission, KS; and all surrounding Missouri and Kansas communities in the 7-county Kansas City metro area.