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The word giclée was adopted by Jack Duganne around 1990. He was a printmaker working at Nash Editions.He wanted a name for the new type of prints they were producing on a modified Iris printer, a large-format, high-resolution industrial prepress proofing inkjet printer on which the paper receiving the ink is attached to a rotating drum.
Essentially, it is a higher quality version of a household printer. There are several types of inkjet prints, including dye- and pigment-based types, which affect the archival quality and longevity of the print. Giclée: This is an alternate name for an inkjet print on traditionally thicker support structure.
The Iris printer was developed by Iris Graphics, Inc. originally of Stoneham, Massachusetts.Iris was founded in 1984 by two former employees of Applicon, Inc., Dieter Jochimsen and Craig Surprise, who had worked with Professor Helmuth Hertz of Lund University in Sweden, from whom Applicon had licensed the continuous-flow inkjet technology used in an Applicon-manufactured large-format printer.
A giclee is JUST an inkjet print. The very word 'Giclee' was invented to make a one-off print seem worth more $$ than it really is. I could make a Xerox copy of something and call it 'Tonee-Sublime`' and charge more money for it. Selling a Giclee for $500 is easier than selling an Epson Inkjet print for the same money, because people are stupid.
Since the 1990s, canvas print has also been associated with either dye sublimation or inkjet print processes (often referred to as repligraph or giclée [1] respectively). The canvas print material is generally cotton or plastic based poly canvas , often used for the reproduction of photographic images.
Media, or mediums, are the core types of material (or related other tools) used by an artist, composer, designer, etc. to create a work of art. [1] For example, a visual artist may broadly use the media of painting or sculpting, which themselves have more specific media within them, such as watercolor paints or marble.
Giclee is just a fad word to make injet prints sound artsy. No reason to keep it in the list of printer technologies evolution 24.27.37.43 02:41, 20 June 2013 (UTC) I rm'ed Giclee, its coined name, the process is inkjet. Fountains of Bryn Mawr 19:13, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
To make a print, the engraved plate is inked all over, then the ink is wiped off the surface, leaving ink only in the engraved lines. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the engraved lines, making a print.