Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] EAM+Piezotones: Printer beware!


> Martin,
>
> Remember, that's several years in normal room light without fading!
> About 3 months in a south window is all you can hope for with any
> inkset.  However, it should be kept in mind, that nobody should ever
> keep their prints or any other form of paintings/drawings, etc. in full
> sunlight for 3 months, or even 1 month.

Absolutely! I wouldn't guarantee one of my silver prints if it was hung
where it received any direct sunlight for any part of the day. Same goes for
my mother's oil paintings, watercolors, pencil sketches, etc. The last few
museum photography exhibits I have been to had the lights turned down so low
it was rather difficult to really appreciate some of the prints.
>
> Wonder what is in Acrylic paints that makes them so permanent? I have 30
> year old Acrylic paintings that are as bright as the day I painted them.

I suspect you have a case of pigments that became encapsulated in a plastic
coating protecting them from air and pollution. This is why Epson is
probably on the right track with their inks. Sounds like they got pretty
close with this new crop and I bet in 18 months we will see another
generation of inks and printers that may put it over the top. They have
already set the archival standard for color prints as far as I can tell.

Maybe at this point we should be looking for a reasonably stable and
artistically pleasing ink set that we can use over the next 2 or 3 years
with the expectation that there will be something wildly better down the
road we can switch to. Having done all the scanning and major image
manipulation it will not be all that much work to tweak the old images for
the new ink. Besides we should really be experts by then.

Martin
>
>
> > I agree with you about dyes and all, yet it is interesting that the Gen4
set
> > has a higher Wilhelm rating, 100+ years then the UltraChromes at this
point.
> > I was also under the impression that the UltraChromes were a pigment/dye
> > hybrid. We always seem to get conflicting reports. You have heard of a
0.3
> > density drop in 3 months and Jerry reports no problems after 2 or 3
years.
> > Confusion abounds!
> >
> > Martin Wesley
>