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I live in the Baltimore/DC area with my wife, 4-year old son, and Scottish Terrier. I got into the screenprint business almost 5 years ago, and have about 65 prints in my portfolio so far. Aside from the whole "print-thing", I also like brewing my own beer, grinding my own meat, baking my own pizza, and shooting a great round of golf. I also designed a website to catalog and commemorate the end of my collection of Star Wars action-figures Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.