Editing Printmaking (section)

=== Digital prints ===
<div style="width:35%; float: right; margin: 10px; padding: 8px; border: 1px solid #8888aa;">Artists using this technique include
[[Istvan Horkay]], [[Ralph Goings]], [[Enrique Chagoya]]
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{{main|Digital printing}}
Digital prints refers to images printed using digital printers such as [[Inkjet printing|inkjet printers]] instead of a traditional printing press. Images can be printed to a variety of substrates including paper, cloth, or plastic canvas.

====Dye-based inks====
Dye-based inks are [[organic compound|organic]] (not [[mineral]]) dissolved and mixed into a liquid. Although most are synthetic, derived from [[petroleum]], they can be made from vegetable or animal sources. Dyes are well suited for textiles where the liquid dye penetrates and chemically bonds to the fiber. Because of the deep penetration, more layers of material must lose their color before the fading is apparent. Dyes, however, are not suitable for the relatively thin layers of ink laid out on the surface of a print.

====Pigment-based inks====
Pigment is a finely ground, particulate substance which, when mixed or ground into a liquid to make ink or paint, does not dissolve, but remains dispersed or suspended in the liquid. Pigments are categorized as either [[inorganic]] (mineral) or organic (synthetic).<ref name="MagnoliaFAQ">[http://www.magnoliaeditions.com/pages/FAQs.htm Printmaking FAQ at Magnolia Editions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413021716/http://magnoliaeditions.com/pages/FAQs.htm |date=2009-04-13 }}</ref> Pigment-based inks have a much longer permanence than dye-based inks.<ref>{{cite book|first =Susan |last =Carden|title = Digital Textile Printing|publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing |date= 2015|page = 27|isbn = 9781472535689}}</ref>

====Giclée====
[[Giclée]] (pron.: /ʒiːˈkleɪ/ zhee-KLAY or /dʒiːˈkleɪ/), is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne <ref>Johnson, Harald. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Dq3Xj8zEYMIC&pg=PA11&dq=giclee+prints+produced+on+epson#PPA11,M1 ''Mastering Digital Printing'', p.11] at Google Books</ref> for digital prints made on inkjet printers. Originally associated with early dye-based printers it is now more often refers to pigment-based prints.<ref>Luong, Q.-Tuan. [http://www.largeformatphotography.info/digital-printing.html An overview of large format color digital printing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113213050/http://www.largeformatphotography.info/digital-printing.html |date=2021-01-13 }} at largeformatphotography.info</ref> The word is based on the French word gicleur, which means "nozzle". Today fine art prints produced on large format ink-jet machines using the [[CcMmYK color model]] are generally called "Giclée".