How do you make double-side prints?

How can I make fine art prints with my printer?

• (There are many questions that I am posing, please attempt to answer all and in as much detail as possible) :) I have an HP officejet pro 8500 a909g. How can I make good quality art prints using it? Also can someone tell me if my printer is an inkjet printer? I printed out a few on matte cardstock and they look nice but not as good a quality as I am looking for. Should I switch to shiny photo paper or a different cardstock/paper? Also, if my printer will not make good quality prints please name off a list of printers that can make beautiful prints. i.e. iris, epson, hp, whatever. I would really like to make giclée prints. Thank you so much.

• Answer:

  Giclee is a made up word for inkjet prints. The HP officejet pro 8500 is an inkjet printer.... so you can call it "Giclee" if you want. Can it make good quality art prints? If you use HP paper it will make a faithful print.... but.... good quality would mean better paper, heavy watercolor stock and such.... and long lasting inks..... non-fading. That HP printer will never do that.. the inks are not "archival" and its paper stocks are not very good. One of the current printers that use archival inks are Epson ultra-chrome inkjet based printers. They also use art print style paper stocks. When ever you see a "Giclee" now days its a print that came off one of these printers. You can look up the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 Ink Jet Printer, its one of the small printers (13" wide) made for home/artist use that has Ultra-Chrome inks. As you go through the model numbers (3880, 4900, 770, 9700, etc) they get bigger (17", 24", 44" etc). They make these things up 5 feet across. IRIS BTW is an old printer, an industrial proofing inkjet printer adapted for art printing. They don't use them much any more.