Canvas Print
Artists have long been struggling to find easy ways to reproduce their works-without needing to mass produce them-fast, without compromising quality. Originally, they used inkjet printers in doing so. However, 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. This is why, ever since its development in the late 1980's, giclee printing has always been used by various artists around the globe. The term giclee comes from the French "gicler" meaning "to squirt". It can also mean "a spray or a spurt of liquid," because this is the mechanics by which inkjet printers work. The term was coined in the 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working at Nash Editions, who was looking for a term name for the new type of prints they were producing on the IRIS printer, a large-format, high-resolution industrial prepress proofing inkjet print...