Giclee

Giclée is an invented name (i.e. a neologism) for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.

Giclee prints yeild superior quality prints at affordable prices. Because prints can be produced one at a time this method has opened up the art world to many smaller artists and professional photographers allowing them to compete with traditional large run printing press artwork.

Giclee does not refer to the paper that prints are printed on but the method of printing. When printed on fine art papers available in today's market, museium quality prints are created ready for custom framing. Using the latest ink technologies prints have lightfast ratings raging from 100 to over 200 years.

Yeteasy prints are all created using the latest innovation in short run ink-jet technology and fine art papers.