What is "giclee"

c.1991, from French giclée, from gicler "to squirt, spurt, spray."

n. (alternative spelling of giclée English)

n. the use of inkjet printing to manufacture artistic prints

Giclée ( or ) is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers. The name originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print. It is often used by artists, galleries, and print shops to suggest high quality printing but since it is an unregulated word it has no associated warranty of quality.