Digital BW, The Print

On 12/14/02 2:49 PM, "Roger L Sopher" <rlsopher@...> wrote:

> I would agree with Robert that if one is  worried about "archival" properties
> then you would want to be able to remove the print from the mat without taking
> a strong chance of damaging it. On the other hand the "archival" properties of
> the various coating materials are yet to be proved as well as potential
> chemical interactions with the pigments, ink receptor coating and paper base.

I can't speak for Hydrocote...because it is a completely unknown quantity in
the museum realm, but if you go for the acrylic route these are already
accepted in museums in the form of acrylic artist's paintings.  The carbon
black in our ink sets aren't appreciably different than artist's painting
pigments...so you don't have to worry about an acrylic interacting with the
pigment based ink sets.  Now dye ink sets may be a whole different story,
but I don't think that anyone trying to make archival digital prints at this
point is actually using dyes.

Robert