Digital BW, The Print

"some people are crazy enought to pay 30 grand for a
type c Kodak lightjet print as an investment,
seriously. That's their bad judgement, not mine. But
what is within my control matters to me."
 

If you actually took this issue as seriously as you
claim, you'd recognize that your "control" of
"archival" consists primarily of preservation of
digital files for clients' optional future access, so
that over the millenia your timeless wonderful images
can be reprinted again and again by your progeny,
cursed with the responsibility unto the seventh
generation.  

If they care, patrons of today's Picassos know their
paintings will not last forever without restoration.  

The same sort of knowledge should, for photographers
to sleep well, be conveyed to purchasers of inkjet
prints. To pretend the original print is "archival"
while not offering future reprints from digital files
(for a price by whoever is alive to make the prints )
might be seen as deceitful, a morally careless
attitude toward the work itself (which is the file) as
it wings its way into the misty future. There are,
after all, services that promise eternal storage of
digital files (so long as the bills are paid :-)