Giclée

The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on a modified Iris printer in a process invented in the late 1980s.

[3][6][4] In addition to its original association with Iris prints, the word giclée has come to be loosely associated with other types of inkjet printing including processes that use dyes or fade-resistant, archival inks (pigment-based), and archival substrates primarily produced on Canon, Epson, HP and other large-format printers.

Artists generally use inkjet printing to make reproductions of their original two-dimensional artwork, photographs, or computer-generated art.

Professionally produced inkjet prints are much more expensive on a per-print basis than the four-color offset lithography process traditionally used for such reproductions.

Inkjet printing has the added advantage of allowing artists to take total control of the production of their images, including the final color correction and the substrates being used.

The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt by Peter Paul Rubens , printed on paper and canvas stock, with the seven Epson pigmented ink printer cartridges used to produce it (printer and prints commonly called giclée)