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Summary: Choosing the right printer for your giclee prints is essential. Learn how to find a giclee printer with expertise from a professional artist in this free giclee reproduction video.
"I'm JK Dooley and we're talking today about giclee reproductions and I've already discussed the importance of picking an actual person to do your printing and making sure that they know what they're doing. Now I'm going to talk just very briefly on actually choosing a printer if you're going to be printing yourself as far as choosing the equipment. Very important that you go online, you visit some people, you do a lot of research and just ask a lot of questions. There's a lot of products available on the market. Obviously, this was not printed by a desktop printer so you can see that there's more involved than just your average run of the mill printer. So you've got a printer that can go from printing this size on paper up to this size on canvas. So there's a lot to think about. Probably one of the most important things that I looked for, and this sounds real basic, but how much ink does it use. That's definitely a question to find out because if you have a printer that's an ink hog you're going to be spending an awful lot of money just on that. So check and see what kind of support they have for you technically if you have questions. You want to make sure that it's affordable and if it's not affordable, is there financing. A lot of things to think about if you're going to buy the type of equipment that you need to print these types of prints."
eHow Article: Paper Giclee Art Reproduction Printers