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 This angel's head was cropped and enlarged from the full-length "Christmas Eve Angel" that is available on our Web page. This is "Web-quality" resolution. It is suitable for printing out small, personal greeting cards and Web use, but not for making quality, "Prints for Framing". (You can license "Web-quality" digital images from this Web page.) |
This angel's head was cropped and enlarged from our digital file used to make one of our "Prints for Framing". You can see every color dot that the orginal engraver used to make this work of art. In the Chromolithograph process, every different shade of color dot required a separate (engraved) limestone block to reproduce that color. The print would have to be inked (with precise registration) to as many as 12 to 24 limestone blocks in order to reproduce the full range of colors that the engraving artist had planned for this print edition. In contrast, today's modern, 4-color offset printing process only uses four photo-mechanical screen dot colors: blue, red, yellow and black. Instead of hand-made engraved dots on limestone block, these smaller, screen dots are transferred to paper using four high-speed rotating plates. Our Giclée printing process helps to more accurately reproduce the quality and feel of the old chomolithography process. |
