"So What is a Giclée anyway?"

Giclée (jhee-clay): It is French for "to squirt or spray." The term is given typically to a certain elevation of printmaking technology. The image is scanned at a high resolution and then printed with archival quality pigment base inks onto 100% cotton fiber paper or other substrates. The Giclée process provides better color accuracy than any other means of reproduction.

Iris printers were the pioneers and the ones that started this market (that's why a Giclée print is often referred to or known as an Iris print). But the quality was not the greatest and the ink was dye base and didn't last more than 25 years before fading. Today a few brand printers have a better print head technology that can produce a high quality Giclée print with archival quality pigment base inks that can last for over 75 years before starting to fade. Some museums started to reproduce the artwork for display to prevent the originals from been damaged or exposed to the light and they needed something that would take their place but still look just like the original. This is were the term "Museum Quality" comes in.

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