Digital BW, The Print

Incorrecto-mundo my friend!

It is the French word for "Spurt" (or similar) and was brought about
around 2000 to make the process sound more arty - a more clever, less
techy
name for ink-JET. The French have shunned the word as it is also close
to ejaculation in it's French meaning and therefore considered crude
and offensive.

Also: I think it is/was used more for traditional artworks (paintings,
water colors, etc) that were drum-scanned and reproduced via
(originally) an Iris printer. The reproduction quality was so stunning
(for the day - 2000ish) - nearly indistinguishable from the original -
that  gallery owners were in fear of a flood of counterfeit Mona
Lisa's. Now that quality is available on the desktop!

I've seen "Pigment ink" used as reference to an ink-jet produced
image, just as "silver gelatin" is being used as a reference to
traditional wet-process photographic prints. That seems like a
reasonable term.

=Alan R.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, -= Chris =-
<baudec@...> wrote:
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> "Giclee" is nothing but the French term or word for Inkjet....
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