"Is " Giclee " merely a fancy way to say " ink jet " ?" Topic
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| Volstagg Vanir | 23 Sep 2010 8:13 a.m. PST |
Regardless, these Prints are Very Nice:
auction
but I do wonder if the tag lines:
Resolution: Actual print is sharper and much more detailed than image shown & was created from professional large format digital negatives of the original piece. Archival Quality reproduction guaranteed not to fade for 200+ years. Giclee Print (pronounced "zee-clay") is French for "a spray of ink". Giclee printing sprays microscopic ink droplets precisely positioned onto the paper surface. Most museums, artists and influential galleries have adopted this printing technique to create all limited edition prints.
are deliberate Fancy-Pants hand-waving over
an (admittedly Nice) ink-jet printer… I guess so:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giclée
anyone have any experience with this…?
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 Doms Decals  | 23 Sep 2010 8:17 a.m. PST |
Yes and no – the process is basically inkjet, but the difference is in the inks used – much higher quality than regular inkjet in terms of colour matching and fade resistance. |
| Top Gun Ace | 23 Sep 2010 9:28 a.m. PST |
HP makes the same claims for their inks, if I recall correctly. Hard to prove definitively they'll last 200 years, until that has gone by. Until then, I'm dubious about the claims. |
| timlillig | 23 Sep 2010 9:31 a.m. PST |
It is just inkjet printing. Sure some people use better printers and better inks, but the giclee just means spray, and does not indicate any specific level of quality. |
Wyatt the Odd  | 23 Sep 2010 10:22 a.m. PST |
It is inkjet printing from a computer and it's done on an HP or Epson large-format printer. Generally the maximum width is about a yard/meter with near infinite length. The major factor is the source material. You need to have a very large, high-resolution image to work from. You can't do it from web images, for instance. Wyatt |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 23 Sep 2010 10:35 a.m. PST |
leave it to the french to misspell something. |
| quidveritas | 23 Sep 2010 12:15 p.m. PST |
I have some Giclee prints. They are extremely good reproductions. I have had folks mistake them for originals. They are expensive -- at least mine were -- $500.00+ mjc |
| SpaceCudet | 24 Sep 2010 3:28 a.m. PST |
leave it to the french to misspell something. A spelling joke from someone in the country that can't spell humour. Funny. |
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