Digital BW, The Print

I know it has been well established in the Piezo3000 group that Epson 
Archival Matte is not Archival at all.  There was much discussion 
about it...I'm sure it's all in the archives.  I myself wouldn't use 
it for just that reason...it is important to me that all my work be as 
acid free as possible...

Thanks,
Cathy Van Berg

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> I ran a fade test in my florescent light fader comparing Museo with 
Epson
> Archival Matte.
> 
> The short summary is that Museo color shifts 10% less than Archival 
Matte,
> but fades 30% more.  While EAM does a rather quick 2 unit (on the 
256 scale)
> yellowing (which stabilizes there), Museo kept it's perfect white up 
to the
> 200 hour point that I ended the test.
> 
> Because the color shifting is more noticeable than the fading, the 
Museo has
> a slight visual advantage from those two factors.  Of course, it's 
4% weaker
> blacks are a disadvantage in shots where that is an issue.
> 
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com