Digital BW, The Print

At 08:25 AM 1/23/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Something I feel I should point out about your experimenting:
>Interestng as it may be, what you're producing on all those weird
>non-archival acid impregnated (shopping bags?) media is TEMPORARY
>ART. Lovely, wild, exciting, (I'd love to see some) but with the
>proverbial 'lifespan of a sperm-cell' if you're using OEM dye inks,
>and only a bit less so if you're using pigments. Something to think
>about when you're choosing media...


The Epson 2200 uses pigment-based inks with allegedly
good archival qualities.  Except for the brown paper bags
all the media I've been printing on is museum grade
artists media such as watercolor paper, pastel paper,
gesso'd artists canvas and linen, etc.  So once the ink is dry
on these things is there any reason to think they will be
unstable?

I asked a related question in an earlier thread about
the physical and chemical properties of the inks and
coatings and I didn't get any answers related to that
question.  Is there a fine-art inkjet forum someplace
on the where where people discuss this stuff?

Thanks for your comments on head damage.

---peter