Re: RC longevity (was -------) Museum Tested


Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:01 +0100 (BST)


> Modern RC papers from major mfrs
> can be considered to be as long-lived as FB, especially in harsh
> environments
> which can affect paper.
>
> Having said all that, I change from the technician to the artist, and
> say I
> prefer papers which have some character, and, to me, RC papers have
> none!
>
> Sil Horwitz, FPSA
> Technical Editor, PSA Journal
> silh@iag.net

As so often, I'd like to agree with Sil. The general consensus among those who
have studied this seems to be that it comes down to aesthetic preference
rather than archival properties. When I did some work for one of our national
archives it was printed on RC.

Peter Marshall

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