> Giclée?
>
> This odd term crops up occasionally on American websites, purporting to
> refer to high-quality printing as in "giclée fine art prints." It is,
> in fact, pretentious nonsense.
I thoroughly agree. This is a term that predates inkjet printers anywhere
but a lab. I'm not sure the exact timeline, but I know for sure that it
predates pigment ink.
The term, as used by curators and dealers, where pretention makes money,
means a print made on an Iris printer. I'm told that those are no longer
manufacturered, and may soon die a natural death, so I see the term passing
to a more general usage. When oringinally made, inkjet prints were very not
archival, so it made a difference. Today, not so important, except for
marketing.
As to archival prints, who among us really needs our prints to last more
than a good wet chromogenic print?
Bill Pearce
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