Digital BW, The Print

Nina,

Thanks for the confirmation on the definition. I had heard this 
before but it is nice to get it from someone whose native language is 
French.

Even before I knew the literal meaning of the word I thought that it 
sounded pompous and very silly.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., ncm <ncm@m...> wrote:
> Bernhard,
> 
> >Giclee print IMO is just a more noble word for "inkjet" print - 
comes from 
> >french word "giclée" (bubble) - was originally used for the IRIS 
printer, 
> >nowadays sometimes used for "fine art prints".
> 
> Not quite. The French official translation is "to spurt, as of 
blood or 
> water" and obviously refers to the action of the Piezo heads 
spurting ink 
> onto the paper using an inkjet printer. Unfortunately there is also 
a 
> very vulgar connotation to the term in local slang, so I would 
avoid 
> using it in France. Yeah, the Iris folks coined the term for their 
fine 
> art prints - guess they were searching for a hoity-toity foreign 
sounding 
> name so as not to use the word "inkjet"...but they should have done 
a bit 
> more research  (g).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nina (in Paris)