Digital BW, The Print

Loring Palleske wrote:
> Giclee is french for spurt spray or ejaculate. It is unlikely the word  
> was used to describe a screen print.

S\ufffdrigraphie it is for art in screen printing.
The international screen printers associations made that 
term official decades ago.

> 
> The French incidently do not use the word to describe a Fine Art Ink  
> Jet (spurted) print. I also doubt they use Sepia for their brown toned  
> photos either..

But let the French tell you what they think of the term:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e

Digital printing in general is called  Impression Num\ufffdrique 
  but it isn't unusual to see the term Gicl\ufffde or Num\ufffdrique 
Gicl\ufffde for inkjet art prints. I guess the French are honored 
when even the humblest French words are used internationally 
where so many English terms are used in every language 
despite efforts to keep them pure. And the French are less 
hypocrite about body functions.

S\ufffdpia is Greek for cuttlefish actually related to "rotten" = 
cuttlefish ink decomposed or processed. Had to look that up 
though. Used by artists in any language for that color, in 
photography, etching, drawing etc. A term related to rotten 
that must have been around for centuries.

Here you have it all: S\ufffdrigraphie, Num\ufffdrique and the 
printshop calls itself SEPIA and has a house-style in that 
color:
http://serigraphie-impression-numerique-imprimerie-offset-isere.sepia-sarl.fr/

Le magic du Web.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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