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Giclée (zhee-klay)
The French word "giclée" is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. The word may have been derived from the French verb "gicler" meaning "to squirt". The term "giclee print" is printmaking technology. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper. The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than other means of reproduction. These prints are produced by using professional ink-jet printers. Among the manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson, MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. These modern technology printers are capable of producing incredibly detailed prints for both the fine art and photographic markets. Giclee prints are not the same as Iris prints, which are a 4-Color ink-jet process from a printer pioneered in the late 1970s by Iris Graphics. The two should never be confused.
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So basically we are talking about an ink jet printer. The term Giclee is fast dieing out in photographic terms and replaced by the simple ink jet print.
I use an Epson 7800 which prints to 24” wide. The quality is fantastic although there are newer models that do more! The price of inks is reduced as you are using larger cartridges as is the paper cost as most will take rolls, the 7800 basically only does rolls.
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think the A2 model is called the 3800, it prints to 14”
here is a review.
Alistair