Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Agreed! 

If one takes that rating on face value, it would be the first
non-archival paper in history to last three centuries...and it would
not even have to be held in dark storage in one of the vaults under
the Brooklyn Bridge.

In general, pigments and the new altered-molecule approaches to dye
ink are making colorants that are very good and very fade-resistant.
The big ugly gorilla in the corner which everyone has been ignoring
has always been the inkjet-coated-paper. 

Got bananas?

Jon Cone



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark"
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
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> 
> > Wilhelm only is making predictions of light stability - not paper
> > archival qualities.
> 
> While I'm a skeptic about all these RC type papers, I think Wilhelm is 
> doing some accelerated age testing.  This is what gets reported in 
> the "Album/Dark storage" category, and he rate Premium Luster as ">300 
> years."  Personally, I'd stick with buffered cotton for longevity.  
> Accelerated age testing is not that good at its best.  
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>