What is a "giclée" print ... really?

koraks · May 28, 2025

Vaughn said:
Carbon print

Which, coincidentally, is also a confusing term when applied to color images, due to the lack of 'carbon' as such in it. Something like 'colloid/gelatin pigment transfer print' would be more descriptive.

Vaughn · May 28, 2025

But mine is a carbon print. Single transfer if one wishes to get fancy...

Sirius Glass · May 28, 2025

Even the top or the line giclée print will never have the feel or the look of a single or double weight silver gelatin print.

GregY · May 28, 2025

Sirius Glass said:
Even the top or the line giclée print will never have the feel or the look of a single or double weight silver gelatin print.

Carnie Bob · May 28, 2025

koraks said:
@fgorga I hear you on the 'C print'. It's really almost as obscure as 'giclée', albeit without the undertone of seemingly deliberate obfuscation.
I prefer 'chromogenic print' though.

or dye coupler

albireo · May 29, 2025

I prefer fine-art silver feline prints, myself!

fdonadio · May 31, 2025

albireo said:
I can think of many reason to shoot film and not one of them has to do with printing my own work in a darkroom.

The “in my opinion”, just before “contemporary”, applies to the question too. I could have chosen better punctuation, I see…

Yeah, I know people will come up with several different opinions and preferences.

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