Digital BW, The Print

unlike "toned silver gelatin", "Platinum", "Kallitype", on and on,
including all of the intaglio, silkscreen, stone lithography, etc etc..

.. it's not a very helpful term, as it does not inform about the
materials at all, or really the process.
It could be Iris, Epson, dye or pigment, whatever.
Certainly people can call their prints whatever they want.
I prefer to call them something helpful and descriptive, and like
yours, mine are originals, not "reproductions" of some other original.

Tyler

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Tyler,
> 
> > http://www.dpandi.com/giclee/giclee.html
> 
> Thanks for the good link.  Here is the essence of the dictionary
> definition at the bottom:
> 
> "...exact copy of an original work of art that was created by
> conventional means (painting, drawing, etc.) and then reproduced
> digitally, typically via inkjet printing."
> 
> I don't know if the author(s) of this meant to include photographs in
> the "etc" part of "conventional means", but no matter.  If a giclee is
> a copy of an original work of art, then it's not a good term for my
> ink prints because my prints are original works of art.  
> 
> If anyone wants to call their prints giclees that's fine, but they are
> relegating their efforts to the realm of copies.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
>