Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 8/22/2007 8:25:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
djon43@... writes:

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 :-)



Problem with this rationale is that the inks, papers and printheads will  all 
be different at some future point in time. The only way to assure future  
purchasers of originality is to print an inventory of the image and store them  
in the best archival conditions affordable.
 
Richard Massie



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