Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]God! I love it! I no longer produce crappy "inkjet" prints - I produce artful Giclee prints! > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tim > Atherton > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 9:57 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] re: Digital Prints > > > > Tim or Tina - > > Forgive my lack of knowledge, but what is a Giclee printer? Is > > this a fancy > > name for inkjet? > > > > Thanks.. > > B. D. > > Yes - it is basically French for squirt! > > It was coined by one of the early digital printers (don't > recall who) when > they used exotic, high end, esoteric machines. But he didn't > Trademark the > term so it became generic for these kind of inkjet printers. > > Until recently, it was used for the Iris printers/prints and suchlike. > However, it is no becoming used as a more general term for > inkjet prints. > Rather in the same was as you will often see "art" > photography described as > gelatin Silver (good old B&W) or dye transfer (a good old Ilfochrome I > think) etc. - fancy names for a fairly normal, if well > crafted process. > > Of course, with inkjet/giclee these can vary from simple > Epson prints with > Epson inks on Epson papers, to prints (still using for e.g. > Epsons, some of > which are quite "high end"), but using archival colour or > Quadtone b&w inks > on various archival (watercolour or other) papers some with > archival ratings > the same or better than Ilfochromes etc. > > And yes, the Epson list gets more mail than the LUG. > > > Tim > >