Product: Giclée Prints

Role: Color Management, Print Making

In 2003, I was approached by my department manager to work with a photographer who needed large format fine art Giclée prints made for an exhibit he was doing in Poland. Apparently, they had previously used an external print agency to produce the prints, but the results were disappointing. It turned out to be an opportunity of a lifetime as the photographer was none other than Hollywood legend Douglas Kirkland, and the task involved printing up to 60" wide posters of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Lauren, Jack Nicholson, John Lennon and many others.

I created custom ICC color profiles for the HP DesignJet 5500ps, color managed the source digital files to the output printer profile, then carefully printed each file using the highest quality print settings and checked them under D50 daylight illuminant to ensure proper color reproduction. The prints were used at an exhibit to commemorate the opening of the National Film School in Lodz, Poland in October 2003.

Douglas ended up liking my prints so much that he specifically requested for me to produce all subsequent prints for future events. In following years, I printed more sets of his photographs for HP marketing events in Kos, Greece, Tenerife, Spain and Paris, France.