About Brijac Art

Brijac Art is a new publishing company located in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Brijac is owned and managed by Dan Calli, who proudly represents a growing number of talented Canadian artists.

Original artwork is reproduced using the Giclée printing process under the watchful eyes of Dan and the artists. Brijac uses Zhee Clay Arts Ltd and Hemlock Printers to produce our high quality Giclée prints.

Dan is always looking for new artists to add to the team and looks forward to building many new business relationships as well as friendships.

Giclée (pronounced Zhee-clay) is the French word for spurt or squirt, to describe the IRIS printing process. The IRIS continuous-flow printer has revolutionized digital fine art printmaking and the art industry has found this accurate reproduction and print-on-demand method irresistible.

The IRIS printing process depends on its ability to create extremely small ink drops. The drops are approximately 15 microns wide, or one-tenth the width of a human hair. The drops of ink leave the nozzle at a rate of approximately one million drops per second, travelling at more than 85 miles per hour. Although each drop exits the print head the same size, the drop size is changed through the ink diversion process. Gaps in the ink stream, caused by diverting the ink, allow air pressure to build, and forcing drops to combine. When this larger drop reaches the paper, it provides greater penetration and better color saturation. Therefore, by controlling how many drops reach the media, the printmaker controls the intensity of the color. In our high quality printing mode, up to 31 droplets can be combined and placed at each pixel location which presents tremendous potential for expressing detail in the shadow areas of the image.

This exacting control contributes to IRIS superiority in its ability to honor the original art. An IRIS digital print exceeds the photographic quality benchmarks of sixteen to thirty two shades of gray per color by producing 497 shades of gray color. That’s something no other printer can match.

Giclée prints are now widely shown and distributed throughout the world. The main reasons for the acceptance of the Giclée print and its notable growth is its quality. Artists are immediately taken with the look and feel of the Giclée because of the use of archival stock and its rich colors.

IRIS giclée prints are produced with water based inks and should be treated as an original watercolor painting; it should be framed right away and kept out of sunlight. The print has been sprayed with two coats of Bulldog Ultra, a solvent borne, vinyl elastic clear coat. Bulldog Ultra provides long lasting ultraviolet protection to digital imaging ink. This is a fast dry, very elastic coating that will not yellow, oxidize, check, crack or peal. Bulldog Ultra has a very high resistance to ultraviolet light, blocking 99% UV light transmission. Choosing a location having normal humidity and lighting levels will provide many years of pleasurable viewing.