Digital BW, The Print

At 01:45 PM 2/10/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>  In response to Jerry's early post..  I referred to
>the print in my original post as "inkjet" because that
>was all I could gather from it.  I couldn't tell if
>the inks were carbon or dye, nor could I tell if the
>paper was rag or fiber(it was matte, though).  Nor was
>it labeled as such.  
>  So, I just called it an inkjet print, which
>*without* labeling, is the only thing you could safely
>call any of our prints. (better hope they don't loose
>your labels;)
>  And I know Giclée sounds a bit pretentious, but why
>the high level of animosity towards this word?  Never
>quite understood the reasoning.
>
>  -Daniel Perez
>   Dallas, TX
>

Daniel,

The word giclee is french slang that has a scatological connotation (to real
French people) and can mean ,like it's english equiv,. to whiz, piss, etc.
Worse, it is a pitiful, self-conscious attempt at frenchifying something to
make it seem more cultured. The thinking must have been that it is a word
that would appeal to those prissy-pants gallery types - give the
vulgar-sounding vernacular a boost in class.  Before this "special" word was
invented galley sales people could only wave their hands and refer to some
mysterious new process that they couldn't really explain without uttering
the words "digital" or "ink-jet".

AZ


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