This reminds me of one pretentious woman who came into my booth and told me about the new word she had
learned....it was giclee'. She didn't believe me when I told her that it was a made-up French word for "copy."
Mostly we just use it to mean "we printed it on expensive paper with archival inks." She stuck her nose up in
the air, sniffed, and told me I didn't know what I was talking about. Hey, lady....do some research on
the Internet and learn something. This is straight from Wikipedia:
Giclée (/ʒiːˈkleɪ/ zhee-KLAY or /dʒiːˈkleɪ/) is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for
fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers.[1] The name originally applied to fine art prints created on
IRIS printers in a process invented in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print. It is often
used by artists, galleries, and print shops to suggest high quality printing but since it is an unregulated word
it has no associated warranty of quality.
