Digital BW, The Print

There seems to be different longevity numbers floating around depending on 
which country the information is coming from. In my forays into the 
Japanese site for the 4000 model, I saw the number 75 and since I don't 
read Japanese, figured this was the upper limit of print life.

UK sites have used the 45 to 75 year span.

And now the US press release that appeared on the businesswire.com site 
states "prints lasting up to 80 years on EPSON Watercolor Paper and black 
and white prints lasting up to 100 years on various fine art papers."

The only test conditions mentioned are "prints displayed indoors, under glass."

Jeff Greer

At 11:44 PM 04/24/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Mark,
>
>Thanks for the tip. Everything sounds great except for that "45 to 75 
>years" print life. That will certainly fly in the realm of fine art color 
>prints but it is not going to cut it for B&W. He also didn't mention 
>anything about metamerism in the prints so I wonder if they have come up 
>with a fix.
>
>If the metamerism is okay this would be perfect commercial B&W work.
>
>I will probably buy one for the color if not for the B&W.
>
>Martin Wesley
>http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html
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>   http://www.photo-i.co.uk/frames.htm
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>   Seems to be the replacement for the 2000P? And scroll down
>   the page, to see how they're dealing with B/W neutrality.
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