Custom Color Digital Giclee Printing
  
Print Your Photographs
  Giclee makes wonderful quality prints from your photographs!
   

Giclee, or ink jet printing, is not just for making reproductions of paintings. This is a superior color and black and white printing technology for photographs as well.

There really is something to printing photographs that simply does not happen at most color labs...

Skilled labor performing custom adjustments of the image prior to or at the time of printing.

I got certified as a Master Color Printer in the 70’s and as technology has improved so have my skills. If you want a print with award winning quality we can supply that from either your files, negatives or transparencies.

We Photoshop our custom prints to retouch minor imperfections, burn and dodge, perform localized contrast adjustments, correct the color and sharpen the image. This type of work takes many years to learn and can not be performed at all on many commercial printing setups.

We charge more then Bigboxco because this is a premium quality service.

Have us print a photo and you will discover the difference it makes when a master color printer with state of the art gear and 30 years experience works on your image.

We offer prints on canvas, smooth fine art matte paper, luster and glossy paper

Click on the calculator at the upper right side of the banner to calculate a price or see our custom color printing price list. 

  
Custom Color Giclee Printing
  Custom Giclee printing on art paper, watercolor paper and canvas.
   

We use the 12 color Canon iPF8100 printer that can produce prints up to 44" wide and over 20 feet long.

The range of tones and density of the black in B&W and the gamut of available colors from the Canon printer is far superior to wet chemical photographic processes.

We make prints for display and can supply ready to hang laminated panels to 4x8' as well as rollable laminated prints for trade show displays.

Below is a 30x40" canvas print of "Mirror Lake Outlet" rolling off of our older Epson 9600 machine. 


30x40 giclee print
 
  
Decorate Your Business
  Laminated Murals are ideal for your public areas
   

4 x 24 foot mural

Decorate your business with a custom mural installation. Showcase your products or project your brands lifestyle with large format display photography.

Our murals are laminated on 3/8's MDB with a beefy cleat mounting rail on the back. These laminated images may be wiped off with a moist cloth if necessary making them ideal for public displays.

  
Trade Show Displays
  Laminated prints are tough and economical!
   
Tradeshow Display
72" Laminated Display
Tradeshow Display
72" Laminated Display
Tradeshow Display
72" Laminated Display
 

Large format giclee prints are laminated two sides with clear laminate to make colorful trade show displays.

Prints can be supported on whip stands or velcro-ed to booth walls. Laminated prints are tough and dirigible. Numerous prints can be shipped rolled in a tube.

The above illustrations are 72" tall fashion photos that we shot on medium format film and digitized at 6500 DPI to produce tack sharp prints. The prints are supported on whip stands.

  
Reproduce Your Art FOO
  Reproduce your paintings, watercolors and sketches with Giclee printing in Fremont
   

Reproduce your paintings and watercolor images with copywork and large format Giclee printing from Cooksey-Talbott Studio in Fremont CA..

  • High resolution digital copywork
  • Match print service to create a color accurate copy of your art from a digital original.
  • Polarized lighting to eliminate glare.
  • Variety of traditional as well as non-traditional media -Canvas, Watercolor, Luster and Smooth Fine Art.

Step 1 – Getting Your Work Photographed…

There are several options here and some are better and naturally more expensive then others.

Basic digital copies are 42mp, this format will support prints to 40".  High resolution digital images over 100mp can be made to support larger print sizes.

You can change the size of the work within limits. The limits are dependent on the nature of the piece but 80% to 120% of the original size is a reasonable expectation for a change that is imperceptible to the viewer.

Paintings like to be made smaller as it tightens the quality of the line edges. As a painting is made bigger the lines tend to fall apart due to the media texture in the original.

We use polarized lighting and camera filters to eliminate or reduce the glossy dots that can appear on the top of each thread in a painting. Matte paintings copy the best.

In each copy a standard color and gray-scale reference is included on the edge to make color matching easier.

Step 2 – Color Matching

Once the work has been photographed it is necessary to correct the digital master.

This can be done visually on the monitor, by correcting the color reference or by making repeated corrections and small match prints.

Making match prints is more accurate and more expensive.

If the painting and a prior match print are available we can match that print. Using the original painting as a color reference is always recommended.

Color is never quite a linear function and it is sometimes necessary to create a mask and alter one color in the painting to get a perfect match.

If you do not create a match print the Giclee reproduction will be close but it may not perfectly match the colors of your original. In many cases this is perfectly acceptable.

It is very possible to take a uncorrected file and make pleasing color however it is necessary to make a match print if you want the final reproduction to closely resemble the original’s colors.

Step 3 – Output

Giclee prints are made on ink jet printers that use rolls or sheets of material. There is a wide variety of material available for fine artists making Giclee reproductions.

Wilhelm Institute or other test labs have archivally rated most of the materials for fine art.

We offer Smooth Fine Art, Textured 320gsm Watercolor, Satin Cotton Artists Canvas and others.

Prints on paper are finished after output. We recommend letting the prints out-gas for 24-36 hours prior to framing.

Prints on Canvas can be sprayed or laminated prior to stretching to make them more durable and less prone to cracking. I have been stretching unsprayed prints for a number of years and they are fine.

 
Contents
 
Print Your Photographs

Custom Color Giclee Printing

Decorate Your Business

Trade Show Displays

Reproduce Your Art FOO

 
Links
 
LexJet
  A major supplier of inkjet media and supplies.
   
Breathing Color
  A supplier of fine quality Giclee media and coatings. We use their Glamour II Giclee varnish on all of our canvas prints.
   
 
 
 
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Cooksey-Talbott Studio has been doing commercial photography in the San Francisco Bay area since 1978. We are centrally located in Fremont, CA. We do tabletop, product, portrait, architectural, food and advertising photographs. We have extensive artificial lighting and grip gear and a variety of top of the line digital and film cameras in large, medium and small formats.

High quality color printing, We are digital imaging specialists and produce high quality large color giclee prints in house up the 40x60. These color and black and white prints are ideal for everything from artists reproducing their paintings and watercolors to trade show displays and exhibits. Prints can be laminated for trade show and display usage and panel mounted for permanent displays.

We design and program inexpensive e-commerce web sites as well as producing the necessary product and lifestyle photos. Cooksey-Talbott Studio has been a PayPal developer for over 5 years and has developed a number of database driven online applications for small and large businesses.

Corporate art consulting services are available to provide custom art work for your offices, medical suites, lobbies, hallways and boardrooms as well as supplying the Cooksey-Talbott Collection of limited edition fine art nature photography. We offer corporate art services from consultation through the installation of the finished artworks.

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