On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Peter Marshall wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <35112E9D.B99B0F92@csus.edu>
> > Any output by
> > a comuter is a million miles away from being archival, even with UV
> > coatings.
> > The UV coatings (I don't care what the manufacturer says) turn yellow
> > almost
> > from day one.
>
> Not true - as the best prints coming from computers at the moment emerge
> on to the very same paper that are used for other photographic prints and
> thus have exactly the same life scale.
>
> Visually they are also impossible to tell from those produced manually,
> although a skilled printer might look at some and wonder how some things
> were possible.
>
> You can have all the advantages of manipulating your work in Photoshop to
> do things that would be difficult or impossible (or very expensive) in the
> darkroom and then get a true photo print.
>
> Being able to produce a quick proof on the Epson that is also suitable for
> many purposes is a bonus.
>
>
> Peter Marshall
>
> On Fixing Shadows and elsewhere:
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s
> Family Pictures, German Indications, London demonstrations &
> The Buildings of London etc: http://www.spelthorne.ac.uk/pm/
>
>