Giclee (zhee- or jee- clay) is a term that comes from two French words that means “the spraying of ink.” Original paintings are digitally photographed and printed onto one of two substrates: canvas or paper.  Today the newer inkjet technologies have introduced the capability to not only use much more permanent pigment-based inks, but also to use anywhere from six to eight colors. A giclée printer produces over four million droplets of ink per second; those micro-droplets combine to form more than two thousand shades of color. 

The latest generations of pigmented inks have been third-party tested to be stable in the range of 100-150 years, In addition, it is true that a high-quality giclée print is far superior in terms of color gamut to that of a standard four-color, offset lithographic print created on a traditional printing press.