Are all the artworks in your collection genuine, exactly what you think of? The following images are typical examples of prints created by inkjet printers. Notice numerous tiny dots in yellow, cyan, magenta, and black that are the typical ink colors used in color printers. Original paintings using medium, such as oil, acrylic, watercolor, and color pencils, do not have these dots. Only prints and some mixed-media artworks involving print process have the dots.

You can easily check your art pieces by a 30X illuminated microscope or by scanning the artwork at 600 dpi or higher and then examining it with an image-processing program such as Adobe Photoshop. If your artwork has these dots, they went through a printing process.

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See larger sample images of artwork that went through print process.