Giclée Printing and Framing, LLC
Giclée (pronounced like 'gee-clay') is a term for high quality prints using archival media and inks. Another exciting media is our metallic print paper.
We're glad you're here, and can't wait to work together to bring the upmost longevity to your art! Our business provides top quality Giclée prints on a variety of archival, acid free papers and canvas. We also provide custom matting & framing services with a color specialist on staff to assist our customers. We offer scanning services to take prints or artwork and create digital media files. Giclé
06/18/2024
Well friends, our first heatwave of the year has begun. We will be open by APPOINTMENT ONLY on Wednesday, Thursday, and (probably) Friday this week.
We will be retrieving our shop phone tomorrow to answer calls. In the meantime, please send us an email to plan your visit: [email protected]
Thanks for understanding. Stay cool! 😎🌞🔥
06/13/2024
We recently changed our shop hours! We are now closed on Sundays. 🕑
The Indian Orchard Mill is a historic work building without air conditioning. It gets very hot up here on the third floor! With that said, we may adjust hours on especially hotter days as summer weather arrives. It's a good idea for walk-ins to call ahead to make sure we're here.
Thank you all for your support. Now let the long summer days begin! ☀️
06/01/2024
This drawing is by Anja Rozen, a 13 year old primary school student in Slovenia. She was chosen from 600,000 children around the world to create a piece of art to show what peace looks like. She is the winner of the international Plakat Miru competition.
“My drawing represents the land that binds us and unites us.” Humans are woven together. If someone gives up, others fall. We are all connected to our planet and to each other, but unfortunately we are little aware of it. We are woven together. Other people weave alongside me my own story; and I weave theirs," said the young designer
- Courtesy: Fatima Anfig
We'd like to wish our friends a safe, enjoyable holiday weekend as we continue to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. ❤️🤍💙
*We will be CLOSED tomorrow, Sunday 5/26
These unique drawings are by artist Yanick Lapuh. We were so intrigued to hear the creating process that we have to share:
Yanick, 71, created each of these pieces while having conversations with his adult children. Flipping the paper around to reach all sides, he says he "draws their conversations" as they go. There is no specific direction or goal for the artistic result. Each mark and line is drawn simply while being in the moment.
To no surprise, we are once again inspired by another great artist. 😊
05/16/2024
We ❤️ our artists.
05/10/2024
Facebook community, please chime in! We have this open space above our Epson printer that needs some pizzazz. What kind of art should we display up there? An XL photograph? A digitized illustration? Something fluorescent and abstract?
Feel welcome to save the photo and doodle away in the comments. 🖌
05/04/2024
We make prints, cut custom mats+glass, stretch canvases, and apparently also make a pretty dang good creative beverage with whatever we have on hand. How about a hot lavender coffee with reishi-cocoa, anyone? Café Giclée, coming atcha live on this beautiful Saturday!
A heads up- We will be closed early today at 1pm to go enjoy this gorgeous day with family for a birthday party. Weekend warrior walk-ins, please come see us tomorrow 10-5!
Have a fantastic weekend, everyone! 🌷☕️
04/26/2024
Call for art! The 6th Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition is accepting submissions until August 27th. We welcome artwork in Traditional Realism in the following 7 categories: Oil Painting, Watercolor, Sculpture, Drawing/ Graphics, Acrylic (includes casein & egg tempera, Pastel, and Mixed Media. Details and entry form: https://workshop13.org/exhibitions/2024-nefae-call-for-art/
04/20/2024
We took some time today to visit the 30th Annual Spring Art Show in Monson. What a fabulous turnout and many great pieces. Now we're having an early dinner at . This vibrant mural is adjacent to the parking lot and is huge in person! We were happy to have enjoyed the afternoon supporting this local organization and their contributing artists. 😁
There are some incredible talented folks at Springfield Technical Community College. What a spread! Happy Friday. ⚡️
04/19/2024
Join us at the Spring Art Exhibition and Sale tomorrow! Come see all the amazing work from this year's batch of very talented artists! Visit the House of Art and Memorial Hall from noon to 5pm!
The word's out that we have the ability to digitize artworks. We shared our high-resolution scanner method a couple of weeks back. But did you know there's another way we can digitize art?
Option 1: High-Res Scan
Option 2: Photography
Each method produces excellent quality for print reproductions, but the processes look much different from the other.
With photography, we turn our print shop into a "portrait studio", fit with two natural light soft boxes, and professional light meter measurements, ensuring each section of the artwork will be as evenly exposed to the next.
We won't lie to you- this method takes a bit more preparation than our scanned digitizations. You're probably thinking, "So why do it that way when you have a scanner?"
We reserve the photographic option for certain criteria artworks that may be considered fragile, super-multidimensional, or considerably large.
This large, mixed media painting with real gold flake fit that criteria enough for us. ✨️
"Primavera" Oil and gold flake on canvas by artist Tanya Miller.
(A very grateful shout-out to our friend Matt Freeman for building+mounting our art rig for us. Whatta guy! 🛠 )
03/24/2024
The sunny dandelions around the today are a bright promise of even more sunny days to come. Dandelions are a wonderful symbol of hope, resilience, and healing. How fitting that they are among the first to bloom after our cold, rough winters!
With spring finally here, you can find us in the shop wrapping up lots of printing+framing projects for the wave of springtime art shows, gallery openings, and creative celebrations kicking off all over. It's a great time for artists to emerge and embrace the blooming possibilities of tomorrow. 💛
PS: A heads up that the Giclée shop will be CLOSED on Easter Sunday, 3/31. 🐇🐣
So you've got an art piece you're ready to hang on the wall.
You found the perfect frame. You already knew which color mat from the start. We're ready to get this- wait! You almost forgot your glass!
We have three different types of glass here at Giclée. We have our "regular" aka Conservation Clear glass, Anti-Glare glass, and our super luxurious Museum quality glass.
This part of the framing process can feel intimidating at first, but thankfully the difference in these is pretty CLEAR when you put them side by side. 😁
Our regular Conservation Clear glass is a straightforward glass. Nothing too fancy about it, but its superpower is that it's our most affordable AND protects your piece from fading with its 99% UV Protection qualities. You just can't beat it... well, unless you're a stickler for reflections...
The Anti-Glare glass softens reflections, making your framed piece easy to see in different lighting without any harsh glare.
The Museum glass takes our Anti-Glare to another level. It removes even more reflection than the Anti-Glare, and makes it look like there's NO glass at all. It's simply one of those "must-sees" in person because it continues to blow our minds whenever we see the glassy reflections practically disappear.
All three of these are UV Protected, which is in our humble opinion, one of the most important details of having anything framed. Who wants nice things looking faded in 2 years? Not us. Bring in your nice things and we'll help take care of that. 🌞
Did You Know: Digitizing artworks is one of our favorite things to do. This is a small sized mixed media piece, made on a watercolor paper. We might make this look easy, but there's some finicky chemistry behind getting our pigmented inks to match true paint, and it can oftentimes take hours to complete a single artpiece! We match colors as closely as possible, printing multiple proofs in the process to make this happen.
This piece took 4 proof adjustments, and our Elegance Velvet textured paper was the perfect choice for replicating the original paper... you almost can't even tell which one is the original. (Afterall, that's the goal.) Like a beautiful butterfly emerging from its cocoon, the wait is worth it every time. 🦋
02/18/2024
Artists, check in! What projects are you working on this week? Can we get a peek? Tag your page in the comments or link your website, especially if you sell prints. You never know who's looking. 😁
Happy Sunday ✌️
This custom matted+framed piece made for a busy day in the shop today. We don't get extra large projects like this too often, but when we do... 👏
*UPDATE 2/9: Our phone is back on! ☎️👍*
2/8: Good afternoon friends. Unfortunately our phone has been having some issues for the past couple of days and it looks like we may not be reconnected until Tuesday. If you need to contact us, please send us an email for the time being. We apologize for this minor inconvenience and hope to be back on the grid soon!
[email protected]
02/04/2024
Bouquets and floral paintings adorn our space to close out a lively weekend! Ringing in February with pops of color and seeing in real life how it all truly imitates art. 💐
Stop in during open hours Thursdays-Sundays 10-5, and check out our featured artists for the month of February:
Tara Hengeveld
Minoo Khanbabai
Maureen Solomon
Drew Wordell
Have an excellent week everyone!
❤️ Team Giclée
And that's a wrap on our official first open house event! 🥳 A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who attended, shared our event, brought food, purchased tees+stickers, and helped us make this such an unforgettable day. It wouldn't have been nearly the same without all of our fabulous guests who came from near and far!
Here's a video taken at the end of the event tonight. When we were getting ready to purchase the business, we decided to start out on the right foot and invested in a brand new Canon GP4000 44" printer. We had not taken the protective plastic off the window, but wanted to wait for a special occasion... a "ribbon cutting ceremony"! 🎀
Oh- and if anyone has any photos from today, please share them with us in the comments! We sincerely appreciate every single person who walked through our doors today and hope that you come back again soon. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
❤️ Team Giclée
01/30/2024
The future is bright, and we've been full of bright ideas... Literally. 💡
New gallery wall track lights, installed. ✔️
We could just be a printing and framing business. Replicating, printing, and framing artwork of many colorful talents, then watching it get picked up and gone out the door. Or, we can do a teeny bit more. We want to show artists their art deserves a beautiful display under bright lights. We believe in the power of artists and want them to believe in themselves too. So we've made a gallery wall. Everything we do that is deemed "ready-to-hang" will have its own bright moment before leaving our shop.
We're artists working for artists. To us, this just makes sense.
01/19/2024
Attention all ARTISTS! Do you have masterpieces in your creative corner that you'd love to share with the world? 👨🎨
Our walls here at Giclée are currently pretty bare... 🙈
We need your help in bringing some color, texture, and vibrance to our space just in time for our open house! Our only request is that your art is ready-to-hang via wire. We encourage you to price your art for sale, and in return would kindly request a 30% portion from any purchased pieces.
Please submit your art to us by Sunday, January 28th. Art pieces will be on display during the entire month of February. Send us a direct message with your sizing of art, as display space is limited! 🖼
01/04/2024
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Our business provides top quality Giclée prints on a variety of archival, acid free papers. We provide canvas printing & stretching, custom matting & framing services. We also offer scanning services to take your original artwork or old photos to create high resolution digital media files. Giclée Printing & Framing in Indian Orchard MA provides fee based consulting as well. We work with a large variety of media but are especially excited about our Wall-A-Peel paper that does just that...we print and you stick on almost any clean, smooth surface. Wall-A-Peel is a fabric that goes on clean and leaves no residue. It can be re-positioned over and over and has been used for wall paper, window decals, banners, sports pictures, maps, school events, birthday decorations...you come up with the idea and we will do the rest. Another exciting media is our metallic print paper. If you are looking to create depth, in a photo or digital artwork especially, this paper is fantastic. Our artists tend to prefer Elegance Velvet Platinum textured fine art paper. This really makes your prints look like the original. Come in for a free initial consultation to view our print proofs and get 10% off your first print order by mentioning this online offer. No job is too small or too big. And did we mention that every job is worked on with love...no kidding!
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34 Front Street, Suite #344, Door #18 (closest To Shop) Or #19 (closest To Elevator)
Springfield, MA
01151
Opening Hours
| Wednesday | 10am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 5pm |
| Friday | 10am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 12pm - 4pm |