The printer was adapted for fine-art printing. He wanted a name for the new type of prints they were producing on a modified Iris printer, a large-format, high-resolution industrial prepress proofing inkjet printer on which the paper receiving the ink is attached to a rotating drum. He was a printmaker working at Nash Editions. The word giclée was adopted by Jack Duganne around 1990. It is often used by artists, galleries, and print shops for their high quality printing, but is also used generically for art printing of any quality. It has since been used widely to mean any fine-art printing, usually archival, printed by inkjet. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on a modified Iris printer in a process invented in the late 1980s. Giclée ( / ʒ iː ˈ k l eɪ/ zhee- KLAY) is a neologism, ultimately derived from the French word gicleur, coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made using inkjet printers. 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)
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