Digital BW, The Print

>What makes you think Lightjet offers greater permanence than inkjet?


Whether Lightjet on Fuji Crystal Archive paper will outlast the best pigment ink on the best matte paper, I don't know. Neither comes close to silver gelatin or platinum. But the "look" I want is that of the air-dried glossy silver gelatin print and as far as I know, there is no combination of paper and pigment inks that can give me that look. The only inkjet combination that can give me approximately the look I want is dye ink on fairly glossy paper. And you know what kind of permanence you can expect from that combination. 

The only other way I know of that will give me the look of the air-dried silver gelatin print and that will also allow me to continue working digitally (and I'll never give that up) is Lightjet and Fuji Crystal Archive paper.

So, yes, inkjet has very good permanence, so long as it is pigment ink on matte paper. Everyone who likes that look or can accept it should stick with it.

By the way, the minute I learn that I can have the look I want, and the permanence, using inkjet, count me in.


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