Re:Show HN: Primitive Pictures
by lisper on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @07:18PM
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That's not quite true. It's a particularly high quality of ink-jet print. You can easily tell the difference between a giclee and the output of an HP OfficeJet.
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Since we're talking art and commerce, I smell a business opportunity - selling inkjet printers with Giclée Enabled™ label, at extra markup.
From Wikipedia (and professional photographers I've spoken to mirror this sentiment), “since [giclée] is an unregulated word it has no associated warranty of quality.” It's like “premium”.
It's still the same process. The printers used to make "giclée" printes are ordinary inkjet printers, they're just not HP OfficeJet printers—probably.
Depends on what you consider "ordinary". A giclee printer can fill a room and cost many thousands of dollars. e.g.:
http://www.adorama.com/iesp20000.html?gclid=CNz7x4-in88CFQqE...
I have a similar printer.
The word "giclee" does not even appear in the description, but "inkjet" does. It's still an ordinary injet printer. It's bigger and more accurate than most. I've never seen them put in rooms so small that they'd "fill the room", I've usually seen them in rooms with several printers.
> It's bigger and more accurate than most.
Then it isn't ordinary.