Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst Dinkla" 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> 

> 
> Nick,
> 
> Like with all other dye inks (semi)gloss paper with a gelatine 
coating can be far more compatible with the ink than matt coated 
papers can be.

Hi Ernst

Wow, really? I was always led to believe, by Lyson's tech dept 
included, that matte papers like their Standard Fine Art was the wya 
to go. Hmmm....

> John Nollendorfs of Lincoln inks (Wide Spectrum) has written me
that 
humidity during the life of a dye print is an important factor in 
fading (and so part of the Wilhelm test) but also that he and Henry
> Wilhelm suspect that humidity at that time of printing itself has
> an influence on fade properties later on. All in all there are
> too many conditions that have to be controlled when printing dyes
> that one could say they can be nice in real test conditions but
> not reliable for normal use. That is if they have to last. If
> your experience is that the prints fade then there's evidence
> enough, especially when it is based on the quantity of prints
> that you have made.

Yes, certainly humidity can play a big factor - the only thing is
that 
I live in Southern California where the humidity is very low. So at 
time of printing, humidity was almost invariably always low.

Nick

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