FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e
"
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."-Bertrand Russell
This a massively made up BS term from long ago that the fellows who actually came up with the use for fine art printing has always dismissed (Nash and Holbert).
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/giclée
NOTE: According to paper and online sources, the French word giclée was first applied to ink-jet prints in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working
for Nash Editions in Manhattan Beach, California. A relatively early account of the origin can be found in “Paper Trail,” the editorial column of On Paper: The Journal of Prints, Drawing and Photography, vol. 1, no. 5 (May-June, 1997), p. 5: “When, in the mid-1980’s [recte, 1990-91], Nash Editions became the first press extensively involved in computer printmaking (with an Iris printer, in this case), it dubbed the works digital ink jet prints. This reflected, in a matter-of-fact manner, the process that takes an image scanned or generated on a computer, and then sends that image to be printed on a machine that spits out ink in minuscule jets … . ‘We had a man named Jack Duganne working with us at the time, who recognized there was no way to talk about this,’ says Nash Editions’s Mac Holbert. ‘He felt that if we just called it “digital ink jet print,” it would have absolutely no impact on the art world. So he went home to his French dictionary and found the word “gicler,” which means “to spray” or “to jet.”’ (Later, the printers discovered that the term in French was slang for ‘to
ejaculate,’ which pleased them even more.) The term ‘giclée’ is still
occasionally used.
But even Nash Editions abandoned it as a ‘euphemism,’ and the more cumbersome ‘digital ink jet print’ prevails.”
