A last word on giclee

As a curator from the academic environment I cringe whenever I encounter the word “giclee”. Students in printmaking have learned to use and love the word for it hidden sexual connotation and it’s ability to mask the source as an inkjet printer. I can assure you that most student prints and those of armature printmakers/photographers are printed in school labs or at home using the cheapest inks and papers available.

I view using giclee as a misrepresentation by charlatans. Too often I have seen cheaply printed, textured, varnished-like prints on canvas produced using the “special giclee process” trying to be passed off as paintings.

Since there are certainly no standards of quality and assurances, I believe it important to call the process exactly what it is as. If you are using "permanent pigment prints" (which is not the material in most inkjet cartridges) call it that along with what ever paper you choose to use (which I hope is archival too).

Mike “Chrome Dome”

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pinhole Blender" <chris@pinholeblender.com>
To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
Subject: RE: [pinhole-discussion] Giclee vs other names
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:15:11 -0700

>
> On Inkjetart.com they prefer to call archival inkjet print "permanent
> pigment prints"
>
> Chris

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