Giclée (pronounced Jee Clay) is a technique for making fine art reproductions, using digital inkjet technology.  The word is from the French "to squirt". It is a way to reproduce an original painting or  drawing .The Giclée printing technique produces deep, saturated colours and these  prints  have a beautiful painterly quality that retains all the  subtle detail of the original.

There are two surfaces that are used for Giclee printing: paper  which has been manufactured to hold the ink in  a very specific way and Canvas which has been specially coated again to receive the pigmented ink and hold it so that it does not mix and blur.  Both are acid-free and only museum quality Archival specification materials are used.  Examples of this are cotton based Warhol canvas, and Hahnemuler heavyweight (340gsm) paper and canvas, as accredited by the Fine Art Trade Guild. The latest inks are UV pigmented inks, such as  Epsom Ultra  Chrome. These are UV resistant and are guaranteed to last without changing colour in indoor light for 80 years. All images receive a final varnish, a UV resistant coating,  which further protects against light, and seals the image against absorbing moisture from the air.

Prints made onto canvas are stretched over a wooed frame and need no frame, although of course they can be framed.

Prints made onto paper need to be framed for support and protection. So they will be surrounded by a border and behind glass.

Using digital technology, images can be produced at any size, larger or smaller than the original.  A good guide to what works best, is to consider the print as a different object from the original, have it made a little smaller to differentiate it .  A print made on paper will have a border and a frame which both increase the final size