What's the latest on giclee quality

On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:00:34 -0700 (PDT), miko1 wrote:

Last time I was hear reading about giclee(several years ago), the
consensus amongst photographers was that it was all hype and BS,
especially the archival issues. I found the posts informative and
you guys seemed to have a good handle on what was going on.

So now I'm back here, wondering if anything has changed in these
intervening years....

I don't know much about giclée other than from the very good
information and tutorial (download the PDF file from the "HOW TO
PRINT THE PERFECT GICLEE" link) from these guys (guy & gal,
actually). Whether anything that they do is different that what you
were familiar with years ago depends on what you knew. Much of what
they do is make high quality copies of paintings :

http://www.kauaisprintmaker.com/

ASAAR wrote:
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:00:34 -0700 (PDT), miko1 wrote:

Last time I was hear reading about giclee(several years ago), the
consensus amongst photographers was that it was all hype and BS,
especially the archival issues. I found the posts informative and
you guys seemed to have a good handle on what was going on.

So now I'm back here, wondering if anything has changed in these
intervening years....

I don't know much about giclée other than from the very good
information and tutorial (download the PDF file from the "HOW TO
PRINT THE PERFECT GICLEE" link) from these guys (guy & gal,
actually). Whether anything that they do is different that what you
were familiar with years ago depends on what you knew. Much of what
they do is make high quality copies of paintings :

http://www.kauaisprintmaker.com/


Giclee is the brand of a printer first used to make archival
prints for museums. It's also used to describe a female
urinating in some dialects of the French language.

A catchy name like that just had to be adopted by inkjet
printers to try and elevate themselves above a mere inkjet...
Even if they now have 12 ink tanks as opposed to the 4 of a
genuine Giclee.

My newest wide format printer claims to have 200 years of
print life. I'm thinking of offering a 50 year guarantee with
prints from it... Except with my luck, I'll live past 120 and
have to replace some.

What surprises me most is that since I first wrote here about
my enlargement algorithm and got attacked by the hungry mob
for even suggesting my bit mapped Interpolation with vector
overlay process of enlargement actually added detail, it's
become a mainstream process used by large and small print
shops to make wide format enlargements up to 1000% bigger than
the native size of the image.

What's changed?
There were no weapons of mass destruction. half a million
people died for nothing... Thank you Mr Bush.

The Japanenese decided to continue slaughtering whales to
measure the wax plug in their ears for science... And eat the
leftovers afterwards!

Usenet has shrunk since then too. Mainly (I think) because of
the idiots who think they know it all and don't, but can't
resist beating up on those who do.

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Watch out because I'm staying the worlds biggest ass-hole!