Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Atherton" <timatherton@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: RE: [Digital BW] Epson Archival quad + coatings


> > Of course, all inks fade.  I suppose even silver prints fade.  (I'll
> > eventually make some silver test strips for comparative fade testing.)
>
> In the Conservation and Archives communities, this is exactly one of
> the points being made in developing standards for digital archiving.
> Silver prints do fade, even when kept in ideal conditions. Silver
> prints now in collelctions have only had their deteriation slowed down
> by being stored in ideal conditions - many older ones are now
> deteriorating noticably, and nothing much else can be done to prevent
> it - they are reaching the end of their life and will eventually
> deteriorate so far as to be unusable - be it after 75, 100, 125 or 150
> years.

In the end it will become clear that we never should have abandoned the
asphalt process of Niepce.
The first and last print on earth.

Ernst