Meridian Design - Artworks Services Provided

Services Provided

We provide in-house photography, we design business cards, postcards, and tear sheets, and we provide printing and printer management services.

We work with both Digital SLR and 4x5 cameras with low UV continuous lighting for exposure. We design for print using the latest versions of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. And with our high resolution pigment printers we can publish your work as fine art prints on canvas or rag paper. We also manage offset printing for items such as business cards and note cards.

Whether you work with delicate pastels or pencils, oils, acrylics, watercolors, digital originals or photographs, your original art can be reproduced, marketed and sold as posters, note cards and/or art prints.

What is an Art Print?

Many have heard the term giclée (zhee-clay) or Iris print. Both are digital prints. The term giclée is a euphemism for inkjet printing and Iris is a trade name that refers to the first inkjet printer able to produce “art quality” prints. Since the introduction of the Iris printer in 1991, digital printing via inkjet printers has blossomed and diversified.

Meridian Design works with large format Epson printers, water and fade resistant pigment ink and archival medias. There is no dot to see and often prints are difficult to discern from originals. Whether or not a digital print is an art print is in the eye of the beholder but the implication is that one sees no sign of the mechanical process and that materials are chosen for their durability and “artistic” qualities. It is accurate to say that our printing process is known as giclée but we generally avoid the euphemism and favor terms such as pigment print, digital print, inkjet print or art print.

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