I'm not kidding! Did you know that the word "Giclée" (zhee-clay), is French meaning "to spit, squirt, or spray?" In the art world, a Giclée simply means that the print was created with an Ink Jet printer, as it spits, squirts, sprays the ink onto the paper.
Is that a "real" Giclée?
So often art buyers will ask if the prints are "real" Giclées, believing that "Glclées" somehow indicate archival quiality. However, now that you know the meaning of "Giclée," you can focus on asking the artist if her Giclée prints are archival.
The two elements that rank archival quality are the paper and the inks. The most archival papers will be 100 percent cotton rag, or canvas. Glossy photos in the past have not been archival because of the gloss treatment, but have become more archival over the years. Be sure the artist uses Pigment inks for archival quality, because the other option is Dye-based inks, which are not as archival and will fade in time.
View my website, PennyShrawder.com, for an array of archival Fine Art Giclées and original watercolors!
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