Glossary

Artist Proof
Artist Proof:  A print assigned for the artist's use.

Cibachrome
Cibachrome®:  A registered trademark of Ilford Photo Corp. and, technically, the color print material used for printing directly from color transparency film.  It is also the process used to produce a Cibachrome® print, which is known for both its archival qualities (the best of any common color printing material) and its rich, saturated colors.  In simpler, fine art terms, it is a high quality, long lasting, photographic print produced by the Cibachrome® method.   (Now commonly known as "Ilfochrome.")

Gallery Proof
Gallery Proof:  A print assigned for a gallery's use.

Giclee
Giclee:  Taken from the French word meaning "to squirt" or "to spray", a Giclee is a print produced by the use of computer technology and a high-quality, large-scale, commercial ink-jet printer.  The inks used are rapidly "squirted" or "sprayed" through the micro-jet nozzles of the printer onto the surface of a substrate.  The substrate used for a Giclee print is often much like the one used for the original artwork--usually canvas or high-quality paper--thus creating a piece of artwork amazingly similar to the original.   (See "Iris Print.")

Hand-Enhance
Hand-Enhance:   (See Unique)

Hand-Highlight
Hand-Highlight:   (See Unique)

Highlight
Highlight:  To paint, usually over an existing image, with the intent to bring forth or pronounce certain focal points of the image by providing contrast, texture and dimension.

Iris Print
Iris Print:  An Iris print is produced by the use of computer technology and a high-quality, large-scale, commercial ink-jet printer (an Iris Printer).  The inks used are rapidly "squirted" or "sprayed" through the micro-jet nozzles onto the surface of a substrate.  The substrate used for an Iris print is much like the one used for the original artwork--usually canvas or high-quality paper--thus creating a piece of artwork amazingly similar to the original.  Iris prints are also known as the "true Giclee print"^** for they were the first prints to be referred to as "Giclees."  

Ilfochrome
Ilfochrome:  (See Cibachrome)

Limited Edition
Limited Edition:  A limited set of identical prints, separated and differentiated by numerical designation, and any other embellishments such as hand-enhancements or remarques, and often personally signed by the artist.

Lithograph
Lithograph:  Although the process of lithography has been around for over 200 years, modern or "offset" lithographs are produced by a photographic process that transfers an image from metal plates to a substrate, such as paper or canvas.

Metal Dye
Metal Dye:  (See Ilfochrome)

Mixed Media
Mixed Media:  A print produced by utilizing two or more printing processes, such as combined Lithography and Serigraphy prints (Seri-lithographs).

Open Edition
Open Edition:  A set of identical prints without numerical designation or limitation.

Poster
Poster:   A four-color lithographic print, usually with type on or around the image promoting the title of the artwork, the artist, the publisher, a show and/or an event.

Pre-Production
Pre-Production:  In publishing terms, the initial section or stage of the printing process which entails producing an initial image or print true to the likeness of the original.  This initial image or print would be the "proof" or "master print" for all other prints to follow in its likeness.  (See Production)

Printer Proof
Printer Proof:   A print assigned for the printer's use.

Production
Production:  A section or stage of the printing process which entails the actual printing of an image, usually in quantities,  for commercial or non-commercial use.

Proof
Proof:  (n) A print normally used for the purpose comparing a media's image quality, color, contrast, tone, etc., to the original image source.

Proof:  (v) To compare a media's image quality, color, contrast, tone, etc., to the original image source.

Publisher
Publisher:  The company that represents an artist and arranges the reproduction, or publication, of his artwork.

Publisher Proof
Publisher Proof:   A print assigned for the publisher's use.

Remarque
Remarque (or Remark):  A small original sketch, drawing or painting on the border or image of a print by the artist.

Replacement Value
Replacement Value:  The amount it would cost to replace an artwork with the same or similar image, and of the same or similar substrate, image size, and edition.

Repligraph
Repligraph®:  A print produced from a photographic slide or negative utilizing several dyed polymer films fused into a canvas substrate. The process was invented by Tim Siahatgar and is a registered trademark of CRA Productions.

**  Ref.  Sean Madden, representative of Harvest Productions, Ltd., originators of the "Giclee" print.