Digital BW, The Print

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From: "scho_2000" <scho@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] What's your favorite paper & "archival"


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Richard Sintchak <richard@c...>
> wrote:
> > Thursday, August 29, 2002, 10:02:09 PM, Martin Wesley wrote:
> >
> > MW> Carl,
> >
> > MW> John Paul Caponigro gave the following values in his review of the
> > MW> Ultrachrome in the Sept./Oct. issue of Photo Techniques:
> >
> > MW> Preliminary Henry Wilhelm "longevity ratings" in 7-color mode:
> >
> > MW> Premium Glossy Photo Paper - 90+ years
> > MW> Somerset Velvet for Epson - 80+ years
> > MW> Premium Luster Photo Paper - 50+ years
> > MW> Premium Semimatte Photo Paper - 40+ years
> > MW> Enhanced Matte Paper - 30+ years
> >
> > MW> I gather the "+" signs indicate that testing is still in progress.
> >
> >
> > I thought in general Glossy papers were less "archival" than the Matte
> > papers?  Seems opposite here though.
> There are some very different numbers for longevity on the Epson Australia
> web site: http://www.epson.com.au/misc/2100_ed_popup.html
> Problem is I don't know which are correct - if any.
>
Interesting. Looks like the Epson data is from in house testing and the data
Caponigro used was from Wilhelm. So even if you test this stuff you still
really don't know how long it will last!

Martin Wesley