COOP's new limited Giclee prints
COOP is now issuing limited edition vivid Giclee prints. These beauts are signed and numbered in editions of 50 for just $100 each. Whatabargain! (Also coming in the next week, a very special COOP/Boing Boing collaboration!) Link
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And by "giclée", you of course mean "inkjet".
No, you are missing the point. I have read up on this. It's a "special" inkjet printer that will handle big sheets of paper. Once the printer is finished with its "limited" run and turned off, the digital file of the image is probably gone. In order for more copies to be made, an additional digital file must be downloaded or uploaded to the printer. From what my senator has told me, that's a pretty complicated process that involves tubes.
Just saying.
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Yes, I have a large format printer here too. I will sell you an inkj... oops, I mean a giclée print for... a meeelyon dollars! Really, it's special.
C'mon Boingers... do a little research on current scams in the photo and art world. If the work is good, you don't have to use a huckster buzzword to sell the process. Call it what it is. What's wrong with the word "print?"
I don't know about yous guys, but i sure want one.
The word Giclee is French for "to squirt". It was first used in this context by one of the co-founders of Nash Editions as a way of making inkjet prints more acceptable to snobby art buyers.
It also implies that the paper and ink used will not fade quickly like many inkjet prints do. This normally means pigment based ink, as opposed to dye based ink and acid free paper.
Nash Editions was founded by Graham Nash who is considered one of the fathers of art inkjet printing industry.
Forget the word Giclée - but there is a world of difference between a dye inkjet and a pigment inkjet. And a sheet of Hahnemühle rag paper is sensuous in the way that typing paper is sterile.
Maybe these prints don't make the leap into the world where something new is happening, who knows, but tablet PCs, the Cintiq (an apple tablet?) and the printing technology are adding up for shifting something in the art space... don't let your technophobia show.
This post though is more like an ad than the usual BB post, what gives?
Fnarf, FoldedPath -- giclée isn't a regulated term. Sure, some vendors use it to make "plain inkjet printing" sound ritzier; but as JamesMason, LBalsam, and Waltzzz have pointed out, the word has other meanings.
It's like pashmina, which is also an unregulated term. All kinds of crap gets marketed as pashmina, but that doesn't mean the real stuff doesn't exist.
Waltzzz, what gives is that much of the pertinent information is in the pictures, so what text there is has a stripped-down feel.
Why is it that your invocation of pigment inkjet on good rag paper feels like someone describing dessert?
Waltzzz, I promise you that I didn't receive a dime for making that post. Our editorial isn't for sale. Ever. Our only filter is interestingness. If we find something interesting, we post it. To me, those prints are beautiful and seem very fairly priced for what they are and who created them.