Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Steven, I've had MIS VM ink prints on display in my home since 
they came 
> out. I see no fading at all under
> roomlight conditions. If you put them in sunlight, of course they 
will 
> fade.

Jerry, if you put them in sunlight, unprotected, they will color 
fade noticably in under 24 hours of exposure time. I have a south 
facing window with 1/4 inch glass I tape them to, that gives them 4-
5 hours of direct sun every day. I once got 2 weeks before noticing 
fade-in a time period when it rained every day for for all but three 
days of that, and that's behind 1/4 glass. Obviously you can set up 
conditions that will greatly extend that time, but do you have 
control of that when you sell a print?

> If you print on 100 percent cotton paper that is acid 
> free, that's about as good as you can
> expect today.

That may be true, but the real quetion is: is it realy good enough? 


> So I don't really worry about fading any more.  Both the 
> MIS inks and the Generations inks (Pigments)
> are excellent at this stage of the game, as good as epsons, anyway.

No they're not.They are simply a great deal more available, but if 
you put any stock in the existing tests, the relative stability of 
the Epson archival inks is better, though I suspect that 100+ years 
on those is sheer delusion also.
> 
> There are a LOT of variables that could easily change these 
results, 
> humidity, air quality, location, etc.

Well we do agree on that.

Steve K
> 
> Jerry
> 
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