Digital BW, The Print

on 11/14/01 10:08 AM, Mark Tucker wrote:

> After the endless search for the Holy Grail, I think I've found my
> home. I settled on Generations4. The way I understand it, I
> ended up with the supposed "new yellow", which they've been
> selling for a year now, and the "Standard Black", which is all
> pigment and contains no dye, (different from their "Enhanced
> Black" which does contain some dye).

Mark

I'll be curious to hear how you feel about your prints (longevity aside)
with the Gens vs your former dye based inks. Personally, and I don't have a
lot of experience with color Pigs yet, all things being equal I like the
depth and translucence of the dye inks best. But I too am thinking of making
the move to Generations.

However, in a newsletter from Digital Art Supplies I did receive the snippet
below, which gives pause:

"Wilhem Research's web site is finally back up.  They have posted some
preliminary information about new archivability tests & one of the most
important to our users is for the Schoellershammer Velvet #10 paper.  The
paper was tested with Lysonic inks and has tested at 85-95 years.  This is
very important as Lyson's inks are dye based, which have in the past
inherently lasted a shorter time than pigmented inks."

Anyway, Generations seems to have a product that you can't really go wrong
with, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts as you compare your prints.

I liked your exchange print and image very much BTW. You must make your rep
very happy. ;-)