Giclee

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as someone who only began painting more regularly only recently, and a new subscriber to Artist Magazine, I've only just become familiar with giclee prints. What are they? I want to get some prints of my paintings for a street fair I'll be showing in this winter, but am not sure what's the best way for me to go. Sally Milo http://www.milodesign.com Tucson, Arizona

What do you know about prints that I've seen in 'museum quality' collections, that claim to be 'giclee' but are either oil or acrylic paint sprayed onto canvas? The look is very similar to the ink-jet 'paintings on canvas' that use actual inks.

And here is a hoot of a site that's been advertising itself for some time in otherwise prestigious magazines. For example, I'm looking at their ad in the latest issue of SMITHSONIAN, on page 106:

'THE MASTERS COLLECTION'

'Museum-quality, on-canvas replicas...

'Our hand brush-stroked, exquisitely framed replicas are unrivalled at capturing the very essence of masterpiece Impressionists, portraits, land & seascapes, florals and more.'

+ +>I believe that to qualify as a giclee, +>the print must be made using specialised inks on a specialised

+What do you know about prints that I've seen +in 'museum quality' collections, that claim +to be 'giclee' but are either oil or acrylic +paint sprayed onto canvas? The look is very +similar to the ink-jet 'paintings on canvas' +that use actual inks.

As I said in the first part of jmy reply, giclee (zyi-clay) is French for 'squirt'. The commercial digital print industry obviously decided a 'giclee print' sounded a tad more important (expensive) than a 'squirted print' or even a 'bubblejet print'.

I guess anyone using a spray-on system of any sort could call it a giclee if they wanted to. I don't know enough about it to be able to state for certain what does or does not qualify as giclee in the commercial sense.

It may be that the 'inks' used in giclee are oil or acrylic based. I wouldn't know. There is a bit of info about on the web.

Andy D.

'I'm a great speller - but a hopless tpyist!'