Museums throughout the world, including the Louvre, use giclée prints to substitute works of art too fragile to be exhibited to the public. New York's Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim Museum also proudly display giclées as part of their collections. 

The word giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is from the French word gicler (pronounced the same) that means to spurt out or spray. The term was coined by Jack Duganne to refer to the product of an ink spray process of printing. The use of the word was intended to distinguish fine art prints from other commercial printing processes of lesser quality. 

A giclée begins with a high resolution digital file of the artwork. The image is then sent to a high resolution printer. At Coastal Art Prints we use the latest ink jet technology. Only archival pigmented inks and coated, fine art papers and canvases are used to produce exhibition quality prints. We use the highest quality archival canvas and professional quality Sommerset Velvet watercolor paper (250 gsm). This paper is neutrally sized and acid free which makes it extremely resistant to ageing in compliance with DIN 6738 and ISO 9706.