Digital BW, The Print

I submit this to this list as this is the list of relative experts. I 
reference color, but most or all on this list are well versed in the 
realm of ink fading or potential light deterioration of Epson dye and 
MIS pigments. Which is my subject at hand.

I have my dedicated B&W 1160 aside, for the moment, until MIS 
completes the mixing of the sepia ink. After printing several 
beautiful 8x10s from an Epson 880, with the original Epson cartridge, 
in color, and leaving them out on a lawn chair in the sun for 10 
days, day and night, I see zero fading or degradation of any kind. 
None. 'Even one unexpected rainstorm failed to deteriorate the prints.

Have I missed a point regarding potential fading here ? 

They are printed on Epson Archival Matte. With the original Epson 
cartridge, which I presume to be 100 dye based. 

The MIS archival color pigments cost 3 times as much as the cloned 
dye mixture. And the dyes would seem to be, if anything, more likely 
to be safer in terms of clogging, and their gamut being greater than 
the MIS archival color pigments seems to be given, from what I can 
gather.

These are shots that I spent much Photoshop and Extensis Intellihance 
time on and previously printed out up to 13x19 in Grayscale on the 
1160, so they were already as maxed out as they could likely get in 
terms of enhancement, but this would not relate to the non-fading 
factor.

I am about to order a CIS/CFS and want to choose the inks. 

1 - Have the (880) dyes been possibly been given a bum rap due to the 
orange shift and fading in other Epson ink sets ?

2 - Might it be as much a factor of the paper - that instigates the 
problem of fading with this or other Epson dye based inks ?

All in all, I hope that Paul and Jerry O. and others might have a few 
words to say as to the need or not to go with MIS Pigments rather 
than MIS "exactly the same" Epson dye based bulk ink for my CIS/CFS.

Thanks,

J. F. Johnson