Digital BW, The Print

> Whoever came up with the term "Giclee" to describe ink jet prints 
may 
> have had an English-French dictionary, but they didn't have a very 
> good grasp of colloquial French.
> 
> Any French speaker who walks into an American gallery and sees 
prints 
> marked "Giclee" probably has to run out of the shop, either because 
> they can't stifle their laughter or, for the more squeamish, 
because 
> they can't stifle their disgust.
> -=-Dennis

Someone was in need of a pedantic term to describe an inkjet print.

There was no need to use the equipment to describe these prints as 
there was never any need in the wet darkroom to make reference to the 
equipement to describe prints. Therefore, we never have heard 
of "enlarger prints" or even "chemically processed prints"

Instead we have silver prints, platinium prints. Digital printer need 
to use the print itself to describe it: "carbon pigment print" 
or "color pigment print"

Cheers,
Andre