Your Giclee


is of the same quality as


those published by the


Boston Museum


of Fine Art!


Just like Legacy Fine Art Printers,


"the Boston Museum of Fine Art uses


large format Epson® Stylus Pro printers


to create Giclee fine art reproductions." (1)



Dolphin Sunset" by George Roberts, mounted on foam board.
Printed on a large format Epson Printer.

PRINTING EQUIPMENT - Our Printing Process uses Epson equipment. As developers, Epson has been on the leading edge of the finest archival printing equipment and ink available. Recently Canon and HP have stepped up with their own line of archival quality giclee printing devices.


FINE ART MEDIA - The media your art is printed on is equally important. We have offered various established brands over the years, but we have not found no other media product that out-performs the Breathing Color brand.


CANVAS MEDIA - Legacy Fine Art Printers uses Breathing Color's Brilliance Chromata White Canvas™. This is a textured, 20.5 mil, Bright White, consistent Poly Cotton Blend Matte Canvas using an acid-free, neutral pH coating. The canvas ink receptive coating is FREE of Optical Brightener Additives‡ (called OBA's) that are found in 99% of inkjet canvas on the market today. This technology helps ensure that your prints will not undergo color shifts or metamerism problems that occur when brightening agents are used in canvas ink receptive coatings.


FINE ART PAPER MEDIA - Legacy Fine Art Printers uses Breathing Color's Elegance™ Velvet Platinum Edition of fine art paper. Extensive testing has shown that no other 100% cotton rag fine art paper on the market today can compete with the color gamut and Dmax that this fine art paper delivers. It has an outstanding ability to absorb ink without bleeding. This makes art reproductions sharp, delineated, and reveals details in the dark colors better than other products we have tried. Elegance™ Velvet Platinum Edition is ahead of its time.





The digital age has brought technological advances to the art world that are astounding compared to the technology that was available even a few decades ago.

In the mid to late 1990's, the ability to reproduce art at the current levels of accuracy was yet to be invented. Lithographs and canvas transfers were the reproduction techniques predominantly in use. The ability to accurately reproduce the color and detail of the original art was limited. Even casual viewers could spot the "reproduction" and discern the technique used in the reproduction process.

The following millennium brought substantial advancements in giclee fine art image capture and printing—so much so, that even museums have taken note.
They found in many cases, they are now able to copy their precious pieces and reproduce them as giclees. The results are so similar, that for on-the-road exhibits, they now often loan giclee reproductions instead of sending their originals.








"Just Out of Reach", by Jennifer Roberts





‡ Optical Brightener Additives - OBAs are florescent dyes that absorb light in the UV range and remit them in the visable "blue" range. Media manufacturers add OBAs to their canvas' ink receptive coatings to boost the apparent whiteness of the canvas surface.


This artificial brightening allows canvas media to achieve an apparent higher Color Gamut and Dmax (visible darkness density).


However, because canvas is normally not covered by glass, the OBAs are prone to rapid UV degradation and the canvas coating yellows causing color shifts in the ink that was applied.


Breathing Color® has developed and proven an ink receptive coating that achieves the desired whiteness, but without the use of OBAs.


Breathing Color canvas is OBA free.

(1) Epson News Release, Mar 4, 2005