"If your prints are sprayed or squirted in any way, you can go right
ahead and call them giclees if if floats your boat."
That being said...would a piece made using spray paint be a giclee??? (just being sarcastic)
-Evan
www.EvanReinheimer.com
--- In artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com, "G. Armour Van Horn" <vanhorn@...> wrote:
>
> The French word "giclee" means spray or squirt or something like that.
> It isn't a registered trademark, it's a pretentious marketing term that
> is used to promote ink jet prints. There's nothing "very high quality"
> about being pretentious, although the intent on the part of the
> marketers is to suggest high quality. An ounce of pretention is worth a
> pound of manure.
>
> Current cheap desktop printers can certainly be said to be as high
> quality as the Iris proofers that were first described as giclees. While
> there are certainly printers who have worked hard to provide
> particularly high quality in their work, there is nothing about the word
> giclee that relates to the results of any particular provider of the
> service.
>
> If your prints are sprayed or squirted in any way, you can go right
> ahead and call them giclees if if floats your boat.
>
> Van
>
> On 12/12/2010 5:39 AM, terri pakula wrote:
> >
> > Hi John,
> > I stand corrected. Thank you. Apparently it is ink jet but very high
> > quality more then a desk top and usually some sort of scanning or
> > transparency is done depending on the medium. I did have one of my
> > photos done with this process and it was expensive. The quality was
> > excellent. I found this link which explains it well too:
> > http://painting.about.com/cs/printing/a/gilceeprints_2.htm
> >
> > Terri
> >
> > "I'm sorry, but ALL giclée prints are simply very high quality
> > inkjets. A
> > giclée should be made using high quality pigment inks on oba free media.
> > A high quality printer is of course necessary so that no trace of the
> > printing process is visible to the naked eye and the best houses spend
> > lots of effort making their own color profiles to maximize the potential
> > of the process. Nothing is 'archival' so we should use the term
> > 'durable'.
> >
> > Also, the industry has evolved, and these days the very best original
> > captures are made using a large format camera with a scanning back, not
> > a 4x5 transparency which in turn needs to be drum scanned. The scanning
> > camera beats drum scanned film for color accuracy and clarity. Film does
> > have an advantage in low light which typically isn't an issue with
> > capturing art.
> >
> > "You know a true giclee is done using a certain archival process. I
> > > have a friend who is a photographer and water colour painter. Of
> > > course his water colours are one of a kind. He takes the actual
> > > painting to a place where they shoot a 4 X 5 transparency and from
> > > that create giglee prints. Certain pigments are used etc. It is more
> > > then just ink jet. Hence he can have a numbered edition. Of course
> > any
> > > photographer can have a numbered edition too ...but if you do then
> > > honor it.......
> > >
> > > Terri
> >
> > "A Parrot doesn't scream to make noise,
> > but because he has something to say.
> > Do we listen?"
> >
> > t.tweetytiel@... <mailto:t.tweetytiel%40verizon.net>
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
>
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