The all process of printing fine art large digital photos is called giclee. It is commonly pronounced zhee-clay. The word comes from the French verb "gicler", meaning to squirt, to spray.

How Giclee Printing Started

The word was first used on "Iris Prints" establish in the early 1990's. The "Iris Model Four" color drum inkjet was a commercial and very big printer that was made so companies could preview work before it is mass produced.

Giclee, the word, was coined to differentiate between fine art prints and commercial prints. Since the process of canvas inkjet printing is Relatively cheap, giclee is today used around the world by many artists, gallery, and manufactories. Although, at first the word caused a big arguments in some of professional persons in the boundary still existent.

Giclee Printing Affecting Today

Giclee, fine art printed, is used today in the high level of the manufactories. Art has taken its Way into becoming more digital and modern, and so the process of production the Digital to hand-feeling possible has become very accessible.

If the Printing on canvas is printed with good quality equipments, it is will give the giclee shines. The inkjet Printers are a perfect solution, for home used and their photo-album-worthy photos, but not for professional photographers.