At Spectrum, we specialise in Giclée printing, offering artists and photographers a premium solution for creating high-quality fine art prints. Our Giclée printing services use archival pigment inks and top-tier Giclée papers to ensure that your artwork and photographs are reproduced with stunning accuracy, depth, and colour precision. Whether you’re producing prints for exhibition, sale, or personal enjoyment, our professional Giclée printing delivers lasting, vibrant results.

As a Hahnemühle-certified lab in central Brighton, we offer several of their papers, ideal for Giclée printing, as well as options from Ilford and Innova.

High-Quality Fine Art Giclée Printing with Archival Pigment Inks

Giclée printing is a trusted method for producing museum-quality art prints that are both beautiful and durable. Using state-of-the-art inkjet printers, we apply pigment-based inks onto a variety of fine art papers, including heavyweight cotton and textured options, ensuring that your artwork stands the test of time. Our archival Giclée printing guarantees that your prints will remain vibrant and colour-accurate for decades, resisting fading and deterioration.

With our Giclée printing on demand services, we offer flexibility for artists and photographers who need small or large print runs. You can order prints as needed, allowing you to respond to demand without committing to large stock. This ensures you always have fresh, high-quality prints available when you need them, making it perfect for exhibitions, galleries, or online sales.

Key benefits of Spectrum’s Giclée printing services include:

• Archival-quality pigment inks that provide rich, long-lasting colour.
• Premium Giclée papers designed to enhance the details, texture, and tones of your artwork.
• Custom sizes and finishes, allowing you to choose the best options for your specific project.

Whether you’re reproducing a digital painting, a photograph, or any other type of artwork, our Giclée printing process ensures that every print is faithful to the original, offering the highest level of detail and colour accuracy.

Benefits of Giclée printing

• Priced by the mm
• Fully automated and easy to use ordering system
• Fast turnaround
• Various mounting options
• Colour managed workflow
• Sustainable Giclée papers available

Inkjet Printing Process for Stunning Giclée Pigment Prints

Our Giclée printing process involves high-resolution inkjet printing that applies millions of microscopic ink droplets onto fine art paper. This method captures every subtle detail, from the finest brushstrokes to the softest gradients in photography, ensuring that your prints are as close to the original work as possible. With Giclée printing services at Spectrum, you can trust that your prints will showcase the depth, texture, and vibrancy that your work deserves.

We use only the best archival materials, which means your archival Giclée printing results are not only stunning but also built to last. Our pigment inks are specifically designed for longevity, resisting both UV damage and environmental factors that typically cause prints to fade over time.

Why Choose Spectrum for Giclée Printing?

Choosing Spectrum for your Giclée printing services ensures that your artwork is handled with the utmost care and professionalism. We work closely with each client to ensure that your prints meet the highest standards of quality, from colour accuracy to the choice of paper. Our advanced printing technology, combined with our expertise in fine art printing, guarantees results that will make a lasting impression.

Here’s why Spectrum is the preferred choice for Giclée printing:

• Expert craftsmanship: Our team has years of experience in creating high-end Giclée prints for artists, photographers, and galleries.
• Superior materials: We use the finest archival pigment inks and premium Giclée papers to produce museum-quality prints.
• Flexible service: With Giclée printing on demand, you can print as few or as many copies as needed, ensuring that your prints are always fresh and ready when you need them.

Whether you’re an artist looking to reproduce your work for collectors or a photographer seeking the best quality prints, Spectrum’s Giclée printing services offer the perfect solution.

Experience in preparation, presentation, storage and conservation of prints were audited by Hahnemühle FineArt, and it recommends Spectrum as a print service provider.

Fine art Giclée printing process

Our pigment ink prints are produced using Epson UltraChrome HDX inks for a wide range of vivid colours, deep, rich blacks and dense shadowed areas for optimum performance on fine art papers.

The inks are specially formulated for superb prints that look exactly the same under a range of lighting conditions. Prints are made with our 44″ Epson SC9000 printers. We print to a selection of Hahnemühle, INNOVA and Ilford papers.

The Giclée printing process is ideal for:

• Fine art reproductions: Accurately reproduce paintings, illustrations, and mixed media art with exceptional precision and detail.
• Photography prints: Capture the full tonal range and vividness of your photographs in high-resolution detail.
• Limited edition prints: Create collectible editions with consistent quality across each print run.

With Giclée printing on demand, artists and photographers have the flexibility to print only what they need, whether for personal projects or commercial sales. This process makes it easy to manage inventory, offering a sustainable and cost-effective approach to fine art printing.

Fine art Giclée technical specifications

• Printer: Epson SC9000
• Multi colour Ultrachrome HDX inks
• Maximum Print size: 1,100 mm x 2,500 mm
• Optimum input resolution: 200-300 dpi
• Output resolution: up to 1,440 dpi variable-sized droplet technology
• Life expectancy: up to 60 years on display – more than 100 years in controlled storage

Deckle edge

We can deckle the edge of your print on all our Hahnemühle papers. This is charged at 15% of the print price. If you are interested in this option, please contact us on hello@spectrumphoto.co.uk or +44 (0) 1273 708222 and we will go through the process with you.

Hahnemühle certified

A Hahnemühle ‘certified studio’ is a print studio capable of creating digital fine art prints consistently and predictably on Hahnemühle Fine Art papers, with the expertise to reproduce age resistant prints with a consistent quality.

Start Your Giclée Printing Project Today

Take your artwork to the next level with Spectrum’s professional Giclée printing services. Our commitment to quality and detail ensures that every print is a true representation of your artistic vision. Whether you need Giclée printing on demand or a full collection of archival Giclée prints, we’re here to help.

Contact us today to get started on your next Giclée printing project. We’ll work with you to create fine art prints that are vibrant, durable, and ready for display.

Giclée products

Award-winning paper range with various fibrous finishes and paperweights, providing maximum choice for fine art reproductions. These paper types are also acid free and archival.

NEW Hahnemühle Hemp 290gsm

This ink jet media is made of 60% hemp fibre and, thanks to the bright white colour of the fibre, no optical brighteners are required. The lightly textured surface gives the paper a pleasant, silky feel.  Colours and details are brilliantly reproduced, the depth of the black truly stands out and contrasts are reproduced with stunning effect.

NEW Hahnemühle Agave 290gsm

70% of this unique, environmentally-friendly inkjet paper is made from sisal fibres. The rough, yet delicately defined surface texture gives the subject a captivating sense of depth.   A premium coating guarantees outstanding print results with excellent reproduction of colour and detail, deep black and optimum contrasts.

Hahnemühle Photo Rag® 308gsm

A popular paper for re-producing high quality for graphic, illustrations and fine art images. This Giclée paper type has a fibrous finish, much like a smooth watercolour paper.

Hahnemühle German Etch 310gsm

This heavyweight paper with a fibrous finish is perfect for re-producing watercolour and ink re-productions.

Hahnemühle Bamboo 290gsm

The first ink jet paper made from 90% bamboo fibres and 10% cotton. This warm base paper has a smooth surface texture, which is perfect for matt warm tone black and white images.

Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 285gsm

This coated paper type reproduces impressive pictorial depth and is ideal for punchy black and white images. We would also recommend this paper type as digital alternative to the traditional Baryta prints.

Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Pearl 320gsm

This coated paper type has a warm base white and is recommend for warm tone black and white images and another great digital alternative to warm tone traditional Baryta

Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Metallic 340gsm – studio printing only

This is a silvery-shimmering fine art inkjet paper with a specially formulated inkjet coating. The natural white cotton paper contains no optical brighteners and has the characteristic Photo Rag® surface structure and sumptuous feel.

The Galerie Prestige is the latest range of papers developed by Ilford. Combining state-of-the-art ink jet technology, this paper type offers excellent colour gamut with a sumptuous feel.

Ilford Prestige Smooth Pearl 310gsm

This heavy weight, resin coated paper features a smooth pearl finish making it perfect for providing superb photographic image quality, consistency and clarity.

INNOVA offers a range of acid free, fine art inkjet papers featuring a premium matte inkjet coating.

INNOVA White Matte 285gsm

Our most popular paper among illustrators. This ultra-smooth matt paper features brilliant whites, perfect for vibrant reproductions.

Fotospeed utilised its wealth of expertise and understanding of image making to engineer and develop a comprehensive range of exceptional digital inkjet papers, inks and accessories.

Fotospeed Matt Ultra 240gsm

Matt Ultra is our economy paper. This matt paper features a bright white base and smooth finish which is ideal for reproducing text and images for short term display.