Re: polaroid transfer longevity

P.O.V. Image Service (pov_image@ultracom.net)
Tue, 12 May 1998 17:35:55 -0400

Polaroid transfers are generally not very archival at all..

The main problem being the very caustic nature of the process itself...

Before even considering overspraying a print and expecting it to last
for any lenght of time, you have to neutralize the print itself or
figure out a way to buffer the damn stuff...

Having said that, the last time I played with the process, a few years
back the best option for long term preservation of the imagery was to
make a dupe of it onto either chromes or neg. Of course you could also
scan it directly...

Unless someone has come up with a good way of neutralizing the remains
of the process (washing by itself will not do the trick with any surety)
there will be all kinds of long-term problems...

Keith Krebs

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