Digital BW, The Print

I found a paper written a while back by Henry Wilhelm called: "The
Intimate Relationships of Inks and Papers: You Can't Talk About the
Permanence of One Without Considering the Other" which you can read
here:

http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/emg/WilhelmPhotoPlus10_29_99.pdf

You might find it interesting.


On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 13:09, Peter Nelson wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Aj" 
> >  The images look pretty good, although ive learned that 
> > the ink on the 1280s is very unstable so I hope they 
> > look as good in a couple of days. 
> 
> Two years ago a friend made some beautiful neutral BW prints for me 
> on his 1280 using Epson's heavy Professional Matte paper as part of 
> some experiments he was doing with new profiler he had bought.  I 
> kept them in a drawer.  Today they are a nice rich shade of 
> green.    Around the same time I made some color prints on my 870 
> which uses similar inks and printed them on the same paper (but not 
> from the same lot).  They've been pinned to my cubicile wall at work 
> under fluorescent lights.   And they still look fine.   Go figure.
> 
> The most exasperating thing about inkjet prints is that their 
> stability properties are a complete crap-shoot.    We can B.S. all 
> we want here about ozone and humidity and fluorescent lights and 
> paper and glass and whatnot.    I've had prints fade to orange, 
> prints fade to green, prints just plain fade, and prints stay rock-
> solid-unchanging for years!   I've printed on "professional" inkjet 
> paper, brown-paper bags, laser-printer paper, construction paper, 
> Canson MiTeintes pastel paper, cloth, gessoed canvas, and it's been 
> totally random.  Some of my longest-lasting prints have been on 
> totally unconventional materials.
> 
> By comparison, my wife and I collect art, and I've got stone-plate 
> lithographs made over 100 years ago that look like they were done 
> yesterday - the whites are white, the blacks are black and the reds 
> and yellows would knock your socks off.


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