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@verizon.net <mailto:t.tweetytiel%40verizon.net>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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