Re: [artshow_photo] Re: can I call my prints giclee?

6:53 AM |

When clients come in using the term giclee I usually say "You mean Ink
Jet!" Then I gently explain that it really is just a marketing term.

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Alison Thomas <thomas5952@embarqmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> I tried to write a definition once of giclee by doing research on the
> internet. There are numerous understandings and "definitions" of giclee.
> It means different things to different people. I've seen it used as a term
> for gallery wraps and reproductions by shows and even judges. The one thing
> I can almost say definitively is that for a lot of shows it has a negative
> connotation. I now refer to my process now as "pigment on paper".
>
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> Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] Re: can I call my prints giclee?
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> No it isn't, if you look at the history of the term it just means inkjet
> period. It was a term coined for the original IRIS inkjets because someone
> thought it sounded better than 'inkjet print'. The puffed up artisy crowd
> seize on the term....it is French after all.
>
> And if you know what the French colloquial meaning was, you would never use
> it. A hint think of a rude meaning for 'spurt'.
>
> BK
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> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:39, terri pakula <t.tweetytiel@verizon.net<t.tweetytiel%40verizon.net>
> >wrote:
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> > 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?"
> >
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