Gilcee printing, what is that?

[Radtech1]

I have been searcing for printing on the net and I keep coming across the phrase Gilcee printing. Any enlightenment?

Rad

[mphoto]

Lot's of info can be obtained on Giclee printing just by doing a Google search. Here is one informative website:
http://www.myism.com/iris-giclee-prints.htm

[Jesper]

You're right mphoto, but Rad wouldn't have found it if he was searching for Gilcee instead of Giclee...... :rolleyes:

[mphoto]

Believe it or not, if you enter "Gilcee printing" in a google search, it comes back with "Did you mean: Giclee printing "
So Google actually saves us from ourselves :)

[Longwatcher]

Giclee is just fancy word for INKJET.

Before I bought a limited edition Giclee, I spend a lot of time researching it.

There are oil based Giclee, which if hand embelished are worth more. If not hand embelished then it is just a print as far as I am concerned a very good one, but just a print. The process uses (or used to use) something called an IRIS printer, which instead of dye based inks uses oils. And they use laser scanners for getting high-resolution 3D data on the original.

There are dye based Giclee which use a process very similiar to what my Canon i9900 does, only someone pays a lot for Art that is a giclee and not much for an inkjet print.

Just my research, as mentioned, find more on Google.

[gmitchel]

It's just an inkjet print.

Marketers found years ago that people would not buy Horsehead Macarel. At least, they bought more if it was called Tuna.

Cheers,

Mitch

[rcrobert]

It may be an inkjet, but they can print much, much bigger than most inkjets we ever deal with -- and they can print on some pretty interesting things, like canvas. Haven't looked at Giclee for over a year, but at that time they could do some beautiful, large, fine art prints that made a photo look somewhere between a photo and a painting. Just my $0.02. It may use inkjet technology, but the final product was more interesting than that!