The word Giclée ( pronounce as "zhjee-clay") has been derived from the French word "gicler", which means 'spraying' or 'spurting' , to indicate a technique which uses non-interrupted streams of ink to get the four ink colours on the substrate.
Because the word "Giclée" is not easy to pronounce for many people, the term Digital Fine Art Print or Iris Fine Art Print is also been used, referring to the manufacturer of the specially needed and very expensive drumprinter, Iris Graphics ( USA )

Changes in inks, printers, and electronic imaging have created a significant new type of printing medium. Today, moves toward technical standards, advances in imaging, research into new inks, and growing interest in giclées have establish them in the art world as prints of the highest quality which will outlast most conventional color photography and are more stable than many pastels, colored pencil works, and lithographs.

The Giclée process is a high tech method of printing which can generate prints of digital images of unrivaled quality. As in traditional printmaking and fine art photography, sheets are printed one at a time, and images printed at the highest settings can require more than one hour each. Again, as in traditional printmaking and photography, extensive hand work is required to produce the final print. Like proofing an intaglio or stone lithograph, each digital file must be proofed then adjusted and proofed again. Since the colors of the image on a computer monitor cannot fully match printing inks, it is generally only after extensive proofing, tweaking the digital file, then printing, then tweaking the digital file again, etc., that the final image emerge. The resulting digital file in essence then can be compared to the printing plate in intaglio or film negative in photography. This time consuming, often tedious proofing ensures that the final print is true to the artist's intent. Giclée prints are now widely shown and distributed from galleries and art studios to the walls of the Louvre.