Digital BW, The Print

At 11:06 AM 3/31/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>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. 
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>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.
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>I don't worry about fading any more. And I'm much happier. 
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>I've never seen fading with any ink on any paper under normal room
>lighting conditions. 
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>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
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>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
>> 


But Jeeeeerrrrrryyyy - it didn't fade it just turned a loverly brown! 
Now if every print turned the same brown after a tanning bed treatment I
could handle that. Definitley will get some enhanced black though. What will
I do with my 8oz. of MIS black?  Don't answer that!


thanks,

AZ

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