>Here is a question for someone to answer: Is it safe to assume that the
>average person who buys an image, be it a painting, black and white print,
>or color print, he or she will expect it to last for some length of time,
>say 10 - 15 years? I assume that people make that assumption. In the back
>of their minds they might feel that it won't last forever, but it will
>still last for a decade.
Many people have seen family albums going back several generations. If old
prints lasted this long new prints should last longer. This is how most
people feel about their pictures, especially if they spend hundreds or
thousands of dollars for them.
Luis Nadeau
NADEAUL@NBNET.NB.CA
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/nadeaul/