Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 07/05/2002 6:36:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tim@... writes:


> I may be wrong here, but I think the Image Permanence Institute at RIT also
> does testing for manufacturers, at a price?
> 
> Of course there is a price! You really don't think that they due this for 
> the interest of pure science do you?
> This was discussed several years ago when Jon Cone released his Piezo 
> system.
> If I recall correctly, it required 5,000.00 per ink paper combination and 
> 30 to 60 prints supplied from the party who wanted the testing done. I doubt
> 
anyone would only want one paper tested! Especially with new and better 
papers coming out all the time.

> These where Whilhelms fees, RIT was similar but probably less. The paper 
> companies supply nothing, no paper or cash, so the guy with the ink has to 
> pay for everything.
They all do some sort of in house testing, so they would have an idea if 
there ink paper combo would do well or not.
I suspect Whilhelm doesn't publicly post fade test results anymore because 
the clients that pay him don't want it to be public 
knowledge on how well the inks do. 
MIS has had there color pigs tested by RIT, and its rumored that Cone and 
company are testing the new piezotones with RIT.
I'm sure there fees are not public knowledge and probably negotiable, I am 
only recalling numbers from a discussion a couple years back.
Steven Meyers
http://www.xray-art.com









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