Giclée

Giclée (/ʒiːˈkleɪ/ zhee-KLAY) describes digital prints intended as fine art and produced by inkjet printers. The term is a neologism, ultimately derived from the French word gicleur, coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on a modified Iris printer in a process invented in the late 1980s. It has since been used widely to mean any fine-art printing, usually archival, printed by inkjet. It is often used by artists, galleries, and print shops to describe high-quality inkjet-based fine-art printing; however, in broader and informal usage, the term may also be applied generically to art prints of varying quality.