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Back when fine are prints made on ink jet printers were sneered at by the arts community (early nineties) a clever printer with a marketing understanding (whose name I used to know) made up the term, Gicl?e from French to sound mysterious and expensive.  :D He was using Iris printers and they were expensive so he was trying to describe the cost by coining mysterious artsy sounding name for the prints. You couldn't say, it's an ink jet print and command big bucks.


Most web sites give you a variety of linguistic meanings varying from, it means 'to spurt,' to it is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. One who claims vast knowledge says "Many websites include a document which says "giclee means to spray". Well, "giclee" doesn't mean "to spray". "Giclee" isn't an infinitive. "Giclee" is the feminine of a past participle." Haw. Gicl?e is at least partly hype.


Legitimate printers who offer the service really do fine prints with 8-12 color inkjet printers of archival quality but anyone can use the term as there are no specific standards associated with it...except if it is a Gicl?e they are going to charge you high prices.


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