Well you are taking about theory and I am talking about observed prints.
Those prints I were made about 6 months ago on a current model Epson
with Epson ink and Epson paper. However it is a low end model printer as
I can not afford anything else. I was showing them outdoors to a friend
and noticed that in the sunlight they looked rather grainy. Upon closer
examination I say that the ink had apparently dried and shrunk a bit
leaving a network of tiny cracks in the image. It is not noticeable to
my old eyes in normal room light where the prints look good, but in the
the relentless light of the sun, it is.
One of the things about Epson printers that I have noticed over the
years is that the archival qualities of their prints seems to be more in
they advertising than in the prints themselves. The other brands seem to
be more conservative with their claims.
graywolf
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Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
The keeping quality of inkjet prints depends upon both the ink type and
the mating of paper and ink, as well as the archival qualities of the
paper itself. I'm not sure what you mean by reticulation ... What I see
in my older dye-based inkjet prints that have faded is oxidation of the
dyes, due to the dye as well as the fact that it didn't mate well with
the paper.
A lot has happened in inkjet technology over the past several years.
Today's better printers use either very carefully formulated dyes and
paper that allow the paper to trap and encapsulate the dyes, protect
them from oxidation, or pigment based inks that are much more resistant
to fading than the older dye based inks. Epson's been the pioneer in
this latter technology. Stress-aged pigment-ink prints on archival
papers now show projected longevity in the hundreds of years.
Certainly long enough for me. :-)
Godfrey
On Apr 27, 2006, at 4:37 PM, graywolf wrote:
I make prints of selected images. I guess I feel those are the ones
worth keeping. Physical copies of everything would just be too
expensive. BTW, unlike others I am not too enthused with the keeping
quality of ink jet prints, especially since I noticed some
reticulation in some not so old prints.
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