what about making a color xerox (or what ever brand copier) of the print.
I don't know how archival the toners used in color copiers are, but they
are likely better than the standard ink jet ink. These may be pigment
based rather than dye based. If so there are likely far more stable.
I knew a photographer once who was on a limited budget - shot everything
on slides (a six by nine slides from a Makina - spent all his money on
this camera!) - when he wanted a prints he took his slides to a color
copying shop and made enlargments on the copier. He soon knew how to use
the copiers better than most people who ran the shops.
Took things a step further and cut up his color copies and made
photo-collages, using his own and found images and copied the collage
to make its final collage print. One could do this with a computer now.
Oops but this isn't pinhole.
That was ten years ago - I'll see if I have any of his color copy prints,
and check whether they have degraded.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Jan Hinderson wrote:
Does anyone know a better alternative than Canons own colurs for their
printers? I use a Canon BJC 7000 printer with Canon BC-60 Black ink and BC 62
Photo Color ink.
I have not had any problems before, but in my last exhibition I hung my
pinhole colour prints in a greenhouse where they have been exposed to direct
sunlight all day for two months and upon that high humidity in the nights.
And that was a bit too tough! In the last weeks of the exhibition the
pictures began to lose some of the colour, they became paler and turned more
to the green.
The theme for the picuters is garden vegetation and from a philosophical
point of view I can se the changes in the print colour as a parallell to the
changes in nature when we are turning into late summer and autumn - but I
don't think that the potential buyers of my pictures are willing to buy that
kind of reasoning.
So - is there a more resistant and safe printer ink on the market, that one
can use in Canon printers?
Jan Hinderson
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