Digital BW, The Print

Alan, Use the MIS VM inkset with media streets enhanced black for the
black ink. It does NOT turn brown in 3 months of sunlight.

Anything will fade in the sun in time. Anything. Oil Paintings. Acrylic
Paintings. Watercolor Paintings. Cars. Clothes. Anything. There is no
such thing as colors that do not fade. 

We are at the cutting edge of inkjet printing now, and with MIS inks and
the right papers, we are making prints as good as they can be at the
present time. 

Put a Silver print in the sunlight for a whole summer and tell me what happens.

I don't worry about fading any more. And I'm much happier. 

I've never seen fading with any ink on any paper under normal room
lighting conditions. 

There is one exception to this. The first epson inks that came with the
first stylus pro printers, were terrible. They faded even in dark
storage, and faded badly, in about a years time. The latest epson COLOR
inks that come with the 1280 printer can last 2 months in the sunlight
with no noticeable fading.

Jerry





Alan Zinn wrote:
> 
> Bad news.  I have a MIS-FS print on EAM that has been sitting under a
> skylight with intermittent full sun for about three months. The ink has
> turned very brown. The good news is it hasn't faded, the paper still looks
> like new paper and I don't need to look for VanDyke brown inks now.
> 
> See for yourself at: http://lookaroundcam.com/colorchange.html
> 
> I think any changes at all pretty much relegates a printing method to
> inexpensive reproduction status.
> 
> It's Spring, the sun is shining even here in Michigan. I propose everyone
> cut a print in two today and place half somewhere in daylight until Memorial
> Day (May 27). We'll meet back here and compare notes.
> 
> AZ
> 
> Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.
> 
> http://lookaroundcam.com/
>          or
> keyword.com lookaround
> 
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