Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "garethjolly" 
<garethjolly@y...> wrote:
>
> Yes, they will be sold and, as such, should be archival.
> 
> But what are these other materials and, when you say they're not
> archival, how 'unarchival' are they?

I'm not really sure how long they would last with pigment inks. The 
other fabric type banner material I have came from 
http://www.digifab.com from the prices, I would say that archival is 
not the property they put at the top of the list. Normally things 
like that are a maximum of 2 years, some considerably shorter. 
Without testing I wouldn't risk it. 

FOr archival fabric, I would suggest Intelicoat Torino 17 mil 
cotton/poly material. In the USA it is simply known by a part number 
I can't remember, but a web search should turn up some info. This is 
the canvas that I use because of the gamut/dynamic range, water 
resistant, and archival testing. Intelicoat claims it will go 100+ 
years (with no coating on the print) with pigment inks, tested with 
accelerated light fading like everything else.


> 
> I'm not sure how they would look on silk, but I suppose there is 
only
> one way to find out.  Can you print on silk with a R2400 or would I
> need to send it out?

Silk should work fine with the 2400. The silk I've tried from 
Breathing Color has a paper backing, so feeding is not a problem. 
After printing just remove the paper. The dynamic range of silk is 
very low! Consider it for a specialty application.

> 
> I'm not locked in on size - what I need is a size that looks good. 
> The images I have will look fantastic printed big.
> 

Then you should consider getting at least one of them printed really 
big to see how it looks. If it's pictures of people, prints that are 
life size can be very impressive! If you go with canvas, and have 
highly detailed images, then canvas prints should be BIG to retain 
the detail of the images.

Where are you located? I might be able to point you in the correct 
direction for larger than 13 inches wide, or contact me off list so I 
can send you information to someone close to you. You almost can't 
throw a rock without hitting someone that owns a 4800 anymore.