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Re: [Digital BW] Re:What is a Giclee.... straight from the source

2008-10-11 by Loring Palleske

Thank-you for that...

I had heard that it was Latin and hadn't delved deeper. I did know  
about the cuttlefish end and assumed it had to do with its ink output...

The whole rotten cuttlefish thing does make sense and is interesting  
that we should use the term to make our 'brown tone" prints more  
desirable!


On 11-Oct-08, at 1:36 AM, Ernst Dinkla wrote:

> Sépia is Greek for cuttlefish actually related to "rotten"

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