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Re: [Digital BW] Brown Tones w/ Carbon inks

2010-02-02 by David Kachel

On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:08 PM, C D Tobie wrote:

> Hmmm... sounds like idealism to me. The carbon components last well, 
> the colors may fade differentially over time, with sufficient light 
> exposure, but for "brown" prints they are so far from neutral that it 
> will be a matter of a somewhat different shade of "brown" at worst. 
> How many hundred years do you expect your prints to be displayed?

I put a lot of effort into getting the exact shade of brown I desire and don't want it to change to some other brown in ten or twenty years.

David Kachel



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