Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> >Are you now more motiviated to use Alpha Cellulose paper versus 
> >cotten for most applications?
> 
> Well, yes and no.  It depends on what you mean by "most".  Now that
> I'm finally accepting that they are as long lasting as cotton I'm
> using them more for some things.

I think it's important to remember that none of the darkroom papers we
all used for many years, and considered "archival", were cotton. Not
even the platinum papers were, to my knowledge, excepting of course
contemporary printmakers choosing cotton papers to coat.
Of course there are many factors affecting longevity besides the sheet
in all these different processes, and untill a few decades (at least)
of ink prints are out there it's difficult to assume much.
It makes me feel better to say the prints are on rag, but I'm no so
sure it means much beyond that.
Tyler