The tools for making these digital prints include, usually, digital cameras, then various kinds of image-handling software, which typically obscures or even obliterates the literal realism of the photograph.

Some images, however, are created without photography—drawn with a digital pen on a digital tablet directly into the computer.

The printing method is often called, somewhat pretentiously, “giclee” (zhee-clay), after the French word for spray or spurt.  Adapted for computer printing, it applies to digitally created images of an archival quality and high artistic value, almost always printed with ink-jet technology on fine paper.

Small images are often printed by Kraemer himself, but larger ones are done commercially, under the direction of the artist.  Prints can be made to a size specified by the client.  Any size is possible (within limits), but standard long-dimension sizes are (approximately):

10”  14”  18”  22”  26”  30”  and up

The long dimension is usually horizontal, but not always.  The ratio of long to short dimension varies from print to print, but, with some very dramatic exceptions, most images are close to the traditional 3:4 proportion.

Every image is strictly limited to a print “run” of 15, regardless of size.   This limit increases the value of each individual print.   

All prints are signed by the artist.  As a precaution against theft, loss, or damage, the computer image file is kept by the artist, enabling him to reprint any customer’s image for only the cost of the printing itself.  As a further precaution, a CD copy of the image file can be provided to the customer.

Prints are sold unframed, but custom framing by the artist is available.  To keep his cabinet-making skills sharp, Chuck Kraemer has developed an unusual frame-making method involving no corner joints, and using a painted finish always customized to the image it will surround.

However, such a frame typically costs at least twice as much as the print, owing to the intensive labor and multiple materials.